Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Core i7-8086K vs Core Ultra 5 135U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.