Intel Core i7-1255U vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Core i7-1255U vs Core i7-1265U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1265U beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Also, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 i7-1255U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.