Intel Core Ultra 5 125H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.2 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 125H with 14-cores against the 3.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX with 12-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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7845HX and 125H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (7-Cores) integrated graphics: 3.9 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • Supports up to 96 GB LPDDR5-7467 RAM
  • Newer - released 11 months later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX
  • Has 46 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • 44% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3076 vs 2136 points
  • 16% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#79th place)

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 1090 MB/sec 1510 MB/sec
Clang compilation 78.8 Klines/sec 187.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 273.9 pages/sec 293.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 321.4 Mpixels/sec 473.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 226.1 pages/sec 322.5 pages/sec
Background blur 42.4 images/sec 71.1 images/sec
Photo processing 103.8 images/sec 100.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 17.6 Mpixels/sec 43.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 823 & 494 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
44411
Integer math 67.6 GOps/sec 152.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 49.4 GOps/sec 92.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 85M Primes/sec 327M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 25.9M Strings/sec 62.9M Strings/sec
Data encryption 13.5 GBytes/sec 32.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 222.3 MBytes/sec 534.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 2325 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 12.9B Matrices/sec 40.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2263 & 846 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
355.47

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 25.3 PPW 19 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 359.9 PPW 233.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 715.9 PPW 592.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.9 PPW 4.74 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
AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-21 (Sandormen)Cinebench 2024108 / 1036
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-11 (Link196)Cinebench 2024110 / 1424
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-26 (T)Cinebench 2024114 / 1477

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H and AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Dragon Range)
Model number 125H 7845HX
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (7-Cores) Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS - Intel Core i9 13900HX
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H - AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX
Intel CPU rating (#138th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#37th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 12
P-Threads 8 24
Base Frequency (P) 1.2 GHz 3.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 5.2 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 12
Total Threads 18 24
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 12x 30x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 64MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors - 13.1 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 45-75 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FL1
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (178th and 60th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (7-Cores) Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 896 128
TMUs 56 8
ROPs 24 4
Execution Units 112 2
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.9 TFLOPS
0.6 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
- DDR5-5200
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 125H official page AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 28

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