AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Core Ultra 5 125U. 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 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 5500 and Core Ultra 5 125U are identical in this regard. Despite this, 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 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U.

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 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.