AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Ryzen 5 5560U vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 256V beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 256V has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core Ultra 7 256V also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.