Intel Core i7-14700HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core i7-14700HX vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Core Ultra 5 225H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700HX has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. Also, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700HX has more L2 cache than the Core Ultra 5 225H. The Core i7-14700HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-14700HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.