Intel Core i7-8850H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i7-8850H vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-8850H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8850H. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8850H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-8850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.