Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i7-5930K vs Core Ultra 7 155U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K beats the Core Ultra 7 155U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 155U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-5930K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5930K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U.

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