AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900X performs better than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7900X 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 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1235U. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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 9 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.