Intel Core Ultra 5 135U vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core Ultra 5 135U vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 135U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core Ultra 5 135U 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 135U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.