Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-1235U

Price

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$ 1540.00

$ 687.07

$ 852.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2271 points

3900 points

71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points

5787 points

53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points

3361 points

83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points

3239 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

73.73 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2729 points

9208 points

237% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2425 points

5801 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

765 points

1884 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

669th of 1,089

442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8665U vs Core i5-1235U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1235U is faster than the Core i7-8665U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-8665U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8665U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.