AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core Ultra 5 135U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 135U is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U 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 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 5500U and Core Ultra 5 135U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. 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 Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.