Intel Core Ultra 5 125H vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5962 points

7843 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8201 points

9212 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5307 points

7473 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5169 points

7441 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5946 points

8216 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.11 points

219.22 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

11% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

96 GiB

128 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

14 MiB

21% slightly more L2 cache

11.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

24 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

252nd of 1,089

153rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core Ultra 5 125H vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125H performs better than the Core i5-13500HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-13500HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13500HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 125H.

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 Ultra 5 125H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.