Intel Core i5-1245U vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-1245U vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i5-1245U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-1245U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.