Intel Core i5-9300HF vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i5-9300HF vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9300HF beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-9300HF has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300HF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300HF. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9300HF. The Core Ultra 5 125U 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 i5-9300HF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.