AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-1235U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1235U. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.