Intel Core i5 1235U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 1235U with 10-cores against the 1.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5700U and 1235U
Advantages of Intel Core i5 1235U
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Newer - released 1-year and 1-month later
  • Has 4096 KB larger L3 cache size
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 34% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2067 vs 1547 points
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4.3 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers
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Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1644
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
9088

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2067
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
6634
File compression 735.6 MB/sec 388.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 48.3 Klines/sec 50.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 209.8 pages/sec 100.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 220.8 Mpixels/sec 177.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 203.8 pages/sec 129.3 pages/sec
Background blur 28 images/sec 27.7 images/sec
Photo processing 45.6 images/sec 43.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.96 Mpixels/sec 13.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3295
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
15837
Integer math 51.8 GOps/sec 61.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 34.7 GOps/sec 33.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 38M Primes/sec 29M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 18M Strings/sec 24.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.8 GBytes/sec 12.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 153 MBytes/sec 222.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 749 Frames/sec 616 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 8.5B Matrices/sec 13.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 1235U and AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

General

Vendor Intel AMD
Released February 23, 2022 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Model number i5-1235U -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon RX Vega 8

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 2 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 1.3 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 4.3 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 0.9 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 10 8
Total Threads 12 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 13x 18x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 12-15 W (configurable) 10-25 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 55 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP6
Peak temperature 100°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 1200 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 640 512
TMUs 40 32
ROPs 20 8
Execution Units 80 -
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official site Intel Core i5 1235U official page AMD Ryzen 7 5700U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 12

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U or Intel Core i5 1235U?
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