Intel Core Ultra 5 245K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX

Core Ultra 5 245K vs Core Ultra 7 255HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255HX beats the Core Ultra 5 245K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 245K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255HX has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 245K has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K. The Core Ultra 7 255HX also has slightly more 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. For instance, the Core Ultra 5 245K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.