Intel Core i7-9750H vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i7-9750H vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9750H performs better than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-9750H has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9750H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i7-9750H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1235U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9750H. 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 i7-9750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.