AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i7-1265U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900HX performs better than the Core i7-1265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U 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 9 5900HX. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 Ryzen 9 5900HX also has slightly 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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.