AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-1265U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1265U beats the Ryzen 7 5700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1265U has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 5700U and Core i7-1265U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-1265U 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.