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Intel Core Ultra 5 125H vs AMD Ryzen Z1

52 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
VS
52 out of 100
AMD Ryzen Z1
Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
AMD Ryzen Z1

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.2 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 125H with 14-cores against the 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen Z1 with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between Z1 and 125H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (7-Cores) integrated graphics: 3.9 vs 1.3 TFLOPS
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Newer - released 8 months later
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen Z1
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • 9% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 5 125H
vs
Ryzen Z1

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core Ultra 5 125H
2136
Ryzen Z1 +7%
2290
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 5 125H +14%
10076
Ryzen Z1
8874
File compression 1090 MB/sec 1008.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 78.8 Klines/sec 59.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 273.9 pages/sec 184.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 321.4 Mpixels/sec 208.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 226.1 pages/sec 249.2 pages/sec
Background blur 42.4 images/sec 42.3 images/sec
Photo processing 103.8 images/sec 74.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 17.6 Mpixels/sec 12.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 823 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core Ultra 5 125H
3321
Ryzen Z1 +8%
3577
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 5 125H +10%
20044
Ryzen Z1
18258
Integer math 67.6 GOps/sec 58 GOps/sec
Floating point math 49.4 GOps/sec 35.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 85M Primes/sec 65M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 25.9M Strings/sec 24.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 13.5 GBytes/sec 12.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 222.3 MBytes/sec 206.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 925 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 12.9B Matrices/sec 15.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2263 & 65 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 25.3 PPW 17.8 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 359.9 PPW 295.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 715.9 PPW 608.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.9 PPW -
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-07 (Dazzy G)Geekbench 6 CPU2266 / 11468
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-25 (SunrayVision)Geekbench 6 CPU2314 / 11107
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-25 (SunrayVision)Cinebench 2024103 / 763
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-05 (Fadaf)Geekbench 6 CPU2221 / 11456
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-30 (ilikememe)Geekbench 6 CPU2201 / 11410
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H and AMD Ryzen Z1

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 April 25, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 125H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (7-Cores) Radeon 740M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS -
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H -
Intel CPU rating (#140th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#99th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.2 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 4.9 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 0.7 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.6 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 6
Total Threads 18 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 12x 32x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 9-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP7
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (180th and 179th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (7-Cores) Radeon 740M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 896 256
TMUs 56 16
ROPs 24 8
Execution Units 112 4
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 5 125H +200%
3.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen Z1
1.3 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 740M compared to Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 125H official page AMD Ryzen Z1 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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