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Intel Core Ultra 5 336H vs Ultra 5 125H

64 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
VS
52 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.9 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 336H with 12-cores against the 1.2 GHz Ultra 5 125H with 14-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 125H and 336H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
  • Newer - released 2 years and 1 month later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 2 versus 7 nanometers
  • Around 46.9 GB/s (52%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Supports up to 128 GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM
  • 28% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2730 vs 2136 points
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (7-Cores) integrated graphics: 3.9 vs 2.4 TFLOPS
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 5 336H
vs
Core Ultra 5 125H

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)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1230 MB/sec 1090 MB/sec
Clang compilation 99.5 Klines/sec 78.8 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 331.7 pages/sec 273.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 350.5 Mpixels/sec 321.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 307.3 pages/sec 226.1 pages/sec
Background blur 58.1 images/sec 42.4 images/sec
Photo processing 149.5 images/sec 103.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.5 Mpixels/sec 17.6 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)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 62.2 GOps/sec 67.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 82.5 GOps/sec 49.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 298M Primes/sec 85M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 33.7M Strings/sec 25.9M Strings/sec
Data encryption 20.9 GBytes/sec 13.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 275.2 MBytes/sec 222.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 2607 Frames/sec 1359 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 23.9B Matrices/sec 12.9B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 54 & 2263 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 38.4 PPW 25.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 535.1 PPW 359.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1124.7 PPW 715.9 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
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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 336H and Ultra 5 125H

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released January 5, 2026 December 14, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Panther Lake Meteor Lake
Model number 336H 125H
Integrated GPU Xe3 Graphics Arc Graphics (7-Cores)
Rival Equivalent - - AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
Successor - - Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
Intel CPU rating (66th and 139th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 4 8
Base Frequency (P) 1.9 GHz 1.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.6 GHz 4.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 10
E-Threads 8 10
Base Frequency (E) 1.5 GHz 0.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.4 GHz 3.6 GHz
Total
Total Cores 12 14
Total Threads 12 18
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 19x 12x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 112K (per core)
L2 Cache 2560K (per core) 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 18MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 2 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 15-25 W (configurable) 20-28 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 80 W 115 W
Socket FCBGA2540 FCBGA-2049
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 110Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (77th and 180th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Xe3 Graphics Arc Graphics (7-Cores)
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2300 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 512 896
TMUs 32 56
ROPs 16 24
Execution Units 4 112
TGP 25 W 28 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 5 336H
2.4 TFLOPS
Core Ultra 5 125H +63%
3.9 TFLOPS
More info: Arc iGPU (7-Cores) compared to Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-8533
- DDR5-7200		 - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 96 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 136.5 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 336H official page Intel Core Ultra 5 125H official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 28

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