Intel Core i3-1215U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i3-1215U vs Ryzen 3 5425U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5425U beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5425U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5425U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. The Core i3-1215U also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.