AMD Ryzen 5 7430U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4404 points
35% slightly better overall score
3241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6525 points
30% slightly better gaming score
5004 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3759 points
37% slightly better multitasking score
2724 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3630 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score
2614 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.99 points
91.09 points
4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.6 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
Identical
4.3 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
10 MiB
233% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

400th of 1,089
506th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 7430U vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7430U is faster 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U.

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 7430U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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