Intel Core i5-1235U vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-1235U vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.