Intel Core Ultra 5 125H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core Ultra 5 125H vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 125H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Core Ultra 5 125H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.