Intel Core i7-12700KF vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235

Core i7-12700KF vs Core Ultra 5 235 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700KF performs better than the Core Ultra 5 235. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 235 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 235 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-12700KF. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 235 has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-12700KF has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 235. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 235.

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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.