Intel Core Ultra 5 125U vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core Ultra 5 125U vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125U beats the Core i7 X 990 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7 X 990 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core Ultra 5 125U

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.