Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i7-11700K vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-11700K that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.