Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i3-10300 vs Core Ultra 5 125U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10300 beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-10300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U. Also, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10300. The Core Ultra 5 125U also has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.