Intel Core Ultra 5 125H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare Intel 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5962 points

6405 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8201 points

9018 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5307 points

5593 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5169 points

5403 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.11 points

153.60 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

14 MiB

133% significantly more L2 cache

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

252nd of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core Ultra 5 125H vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8640HS is faster than the Core Ultra 5 125H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. 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.