AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Core Ultra 7 356H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 356H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 356H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core Ultra 7 356H 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 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.