Intel Core i7-12850HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225

Core i7-12850HX vs Core Ultra 5 225 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Core Ultra 5 225 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 225 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Core Ultra 5 225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225.

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 i7-12850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.