AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4600U performs better than the Core Ultra 5 125U. 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 4600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. The Core Ultra 5 125U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.