AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700 beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 125U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 125U.

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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.