Intel Core i3-1220P vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i3-1220P vs Core Ultra 5 125U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125U beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-1220P has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1220P. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-1220P. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i3-1220P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.