Intel Core i5-1135G7 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-1135G7 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Core i5-1135G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1135G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-1135G7 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1135G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-1135G7 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-1135G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.