Intel Core Ultra 5 125U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD 3 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

3241 points
5020 points
54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5004 points
6843 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2724 points
4448 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2614 points
4307 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

91.09 points
141.41 points
55% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
300% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14
133% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

10 MiB
233% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

506th of 1,089
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core Ultra 5 125U vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500GT beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Both the Core Ultra 5 125U and Ryzen 5 5500GT have the same clock speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U.

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 125U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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