Intel Core i7-1265U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Core i7-1265U vs Ryzen 7 5825U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5825U is faster than the Core i7-1265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1265U has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5825U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5825U also has slightly 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.