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

Core Ultra 5 125U vs Ryzen 5 5500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500H. The Core Ultra 5 125U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.