AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Core Ultra 7 256V benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 256V is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 256V has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 256V. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core Ultra 7 256V 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.