Intel Core i7-1265U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i7-1265U vs Ryzen 3 5425U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5425U beats the Core i7-1265U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1265U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5425U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U 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 i7-1265U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5425U. The Core i7-1265U 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 i7-1265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.