Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Core i5-1335U

Core i7-5930K vs Core i5-1335U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1335U beats the Core i7-5930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5930K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1335U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1335U. Despite this, the Core i5-1335U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.