AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core Ultra 5 135U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 135U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U.

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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.