Intel Core Ultra 5 125U vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core Ultra 5 125U vs Core i3-1315U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1315U beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125U in all gaming tests too.

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 i3-1315U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1315U. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-1315U. The Core Ultra 5 125U 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 125U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.