Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i7-8086K vs Core Ultra 7 155U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Core Ultra 7 155U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155U. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more L2 cache than 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.