Intel Core i5-1345U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i5-1345U vs Ryzen 3 5425U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1345U beats the Ryzen 3 5425U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1345U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U that 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 i5-1345U. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1345U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5425U. The Core i5-1345U 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 i5-1345U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.