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Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
Benchmarks & Specs

Name: Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
Brand: Intel
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Last updated: 2026-06-07

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Modern and very efficient mobile processor for office tasks and older computer games

The Intel Core Ultra 5 235U has 12 cores with 14 threads and is based on the 2. gen of the Intel Core 5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 2049 socket and was released in Q1/2025.

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 226 / 834
In segment Notebook

Multi-core performance

Rank 229 / 832
In segment Notebook

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz

2,142

10C / 12T · 4.70 GHz

2,136

12C / 14T · 4.90 GHz

2,132

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,129

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,129

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 2.70 GHz

7,967

8C / 16T · 3.40 GHz

7,896

12C / 14T · 2.00 GHz

7,886

12C / 14T · 1.50 GHz

7,846

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

7,841

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)

2,048

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)

2,048

Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake)

2,034

Qualcomm Adreno 685

2,030

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)

1,997

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

12C / 14T · 2.00 GHz

13.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

10C / 10T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Property	Value
Family	Intel Core 5 (13)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 200U (4)
Architecture	Meteor Lake U Refresh
Technology	3 nm
Segment	Notebook
Socket	BGA 2049
Generation	2
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Property	Value
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 14
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Redwood Cove 2.00 - 4.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Crestmont 1.60 - 4.10 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	2x Crestmont 0.70 - 2.40 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	No

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Property	Value
GPU name	Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake)
GPU frequency	0.60 - 2.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	64 / 512
Raytracing	✓
Max. displays	4
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Property	Value
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost @ 1.4 GHz (OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT)
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Memory type	Memory bandwidth
LPDDR5X-8400 DDR5-6400	134.4 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
Property	Value
Max. Memory	128 GB
Memory channels	2
ECC	✗
PCIe	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Property	Value
TDP	15 W
TDP (PL2)	57 W
TDP up
TDP down	12 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Property	Value
Chip design	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓
Operating systems	Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2025
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

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