Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i9-9880H vs Core i5-1235U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9880H beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. 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 slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9880H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i9-9880H 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 i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1235U.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.