Intel Core i5-14500 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225F

Core i5-14500 vs Core Ultra 5 225F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225F beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 225F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14500. Despite this, the Core i5-14500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225F.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.