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

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9533 points
10018 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12007 points
12576 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8804 points
9171 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8680 points
8902 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

248.96 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
199.93 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12760 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11870 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
Identical
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
42% many more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
28
40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

11.5 MiB
22 MiB
91% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

99th of 1,089
87th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i5-14500 vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 225H is faster than the Core i5-14500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-14500 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225H 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 225H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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