Intel Core i5-1235U Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i5-1235U is a 10 core processor. It can handle 12 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i5-1235U is based on the 12. generation of the Intel Core i5 series and requires a mainboard with the socket BGA 1744. The Intel Core i5-1235U scores 1,479 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 5,977 points.
| Name: | Intel Core i5-1235U |
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| Family: | Intel Core i5 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 1200P/1200U |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake U |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | Intel Core i5-1335U |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The 10 CPU cores of the Intel Core i5-1235U clock with 1.30 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 10 / 12 |
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| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 2x Golden Cove |
| B-Core: | 8x Gracemont |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
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| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 1.30 GHz (4.40 GHz) |
| B-Core Frequency: | 0.90 GHz (3.30 GHz) |
Internal Graphics
With the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake), the Intel Core i5-1235U has an build in graphic solution. It has 80 SM processors, which have a total of 640 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.
| GPU name: | Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) |
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| GPU frequency: | 0.35 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.20 GHz |
| Compute units: | 80 |
| Shader: | 640 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 32 GB |
| Max. displays: | 4 |
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| Generation: | 13 |
| Direct X: | 12.1 |
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
Hardware codec support
Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
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| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | Decode |
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| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe Intel Core i5-1235U supports up to 64 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. |
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| Memory type: | Memory bandwidth: |
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| LPDDR5-5200 LPDDR4X-4266 DDR5-4800 DDR4-3200 | 83.2 GB/s 68.2 GB/s 76.8 GB/s 51.2 GB/s |
| Max. Memory: | 64 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 4.0 x 28 |
| PCIe Bandwidth: | 55.1 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementWith the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The Intel Core i5-1235U has a TDP of 15 W. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 55 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Core i5-1235U has a 18.50 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in %%Manufacturing%%. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.
| Technology: | 10 nm |
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| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | BGA 1744 |
| L2-Cache: | 6.50 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 12.00 MB |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
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| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
10C 12T @ 1.30 GHz (4.40 GHz)
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-1235U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
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Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Core i3-1220P
10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-11700B
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900KB
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10750H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-9750H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
8C 8T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Core i7-1165G7
4C 8T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
6C 12T @ 4.55 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
6C 12T @ 4.55 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1230U
10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1160G7
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Xeon D-2145NT
8C 16T @ 1.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11500T
6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10505
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.|
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Intel Core i3-12100T
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1365UE
10C 12T @ 4.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.|
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Intel Core i7-11600H
6C 12T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-9880H
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11600T
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10850H
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10750H
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) @ 0.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3580U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 9 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13620H
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 1.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235UL
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1245UL
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1245U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.20 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
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Intel Xeon E-2276G
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-8700K
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-1250
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-12300T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 5300G
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
527 entries
527 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
504 entries
504 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,398 entries
2,398 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,371 entries
2,371 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,646 entries
1,646 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,597 entries
1,597 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries
1,925 entries
3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
478 entries
478 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries
2,319 entries
Description of the processor
The Intel Core i5-1235U is a modern mobile processor for notebooks from Intel. The processor is based on the 12th generation of the Intel Core i series (Alder Lake) and has a hybrid core structure. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-1235U has two large CPU cores of the "Golden Cove" type and eight efficiency cores (Gracemont).Due to the hybrid core structure, the Intel Core i5-1235U is very energy-efficient because only the CPU cores that are currently needed are used. The small efficiency cores take care of background tasks, for example, in order to relieve the load on the large CPU cores.
Since the two large Golden Cove CPU cores also support Intel Hyperthreading Technology, they can process two threads per core simultaneously, while the smaller CPU cores can only process one thread each. This gives the Intel Core i5-1235U a total of 10 CPU cores and 12 threads. Thats enough to get more complex tasks done quickly.
The Intel Iris Xe Graphics with 80 computing units and a total of 640 texture shaders is used as the iGPU (internal graphics unit) in the Intel Core i5-1235U. The clock frequency is 0.35 GHz in the base, but can be increased up to 1.2 GHz. With a raw processing power of about 1.5 GFLOPS, the iGPU is sufficient to play older games in medium resolutions.
However, more modern games then require a stronger, dedicated graphics card. Modern video codecs such as the free AV1 codec, which is already used on YouTube, are already supported in the hardware, which significantly extends the battery life in the notebook when playing corresponding videos.
Up to 64 GB of RAM can be connected to the system in 2 memory channels. In addition to DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-5200 memory is also supported. The maximum bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s.
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