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Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
The budget route into Meteor Lake keeps the NPU, the media engine, and 14 cores, trimming two P-cores and one Xe core. For mainstream laptops the efficiency and Arc graphics matter more than the lost peak speed.
Pros
- Keeps the full NPU and media engine
- 14 cores handle midrange multitasking well
- Seven Xe cores still beat Iris Xe
- Efficient at its 28W base power
Cons
- Four P-cores cap sustained throughput
- Single-core noticeably behind the 155H
- Often paired with slow memory in budget designs
Average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
General
- Announced
- 2023
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 28 W
- Max TDP
- 115 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 14
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 10
- Threads
- 18
- Base clock
- 1.2 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.5 GHz
- L3 cache
- 18 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Arc Graphics (7 Xe)
- iGPU clock
- 2,200 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-7467 / DDR5-5600
- Max memory
- 96 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,269Bottom 21%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 11,230Bottom 48%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,648Bottom 32%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 12,805Bottom 47%
- PassMark
- 19,976Bottom 43%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 3,315Bottom 27%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 2,941Top 20%
Devices with the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
5 devices in our catalog use this chip
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 5 125H earns an Inno Score of 55.2/100 (“Average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The budget route into Meteor Lake keeps the NPU, the media engine, and 14 cores, trimming two P-cores and one Xe core. For mainstream laptops the efficiency and Arc graphics matter more than the lost peak speed.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 19,976 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26–Oct 8, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
Which devices use the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H?
5 devices in our catalog use the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H: REDMI Book 14 (2026), HONOR MagicBook Pro 16 2024, MSI Venture 15 AI A1M, MSI Venture 16 AI A1M, MSI Venture 17 AI A1M.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H?
Cores: 14 · Threads: 18 · Boost clock: 4.5 GHz · Base TDP: 28 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-13705H, AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
