Intel Core i5-1235U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i5-1235U vs Ryzen 3 5425U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-1235U performs better than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5425U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5425U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5425U. The Core i5-1235U also has significantly 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 i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.