AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-1255U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-1255U 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 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.