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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)
- 2,240Bottom 32%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 11,100Bottom 49%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,650Bottom 45%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 13,500Top 46%
- PassMark
- 19,976Top 50%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 2,881Top 18%
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, 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.
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 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100, AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS, Intel Core i7-13700H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
