AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Core i7-1365U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1365U beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1365U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1365U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1365U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i7-1365U 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 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.