Intel Core i7-1355U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Core i7-1355U vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 256V beats the Core i7-1355U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1355U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1355U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-1355U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.