Intel Pentium B960 vs Intel Core i5-1235U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 12
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 900 Intel Core i 1200P/1200U

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.20 GHz 1.30 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 1.20 GHz
• Execution units
  6 80
• Shader
  48 640
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  2 4
• Generation
  6 13
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2022

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-1235U and Intel Pentium B960. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium B960 and Intel Core i5-1235U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 55 W
• Tjunction max.
  85 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium B960 and Intel Pentium B960, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  -- 6.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 12.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge U Alder Lake U
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  PGA 988 BGA 1744
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q1/2022