AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Ryzen 5 7520U vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. In addition, both chips have the same 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 7520U. The Core Ultra 5 125U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7520U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.