Intel Core i9-12950HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core i9-12950HX vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12950HX beats the Core Ultra 5 225H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12950HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 225H has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. Also, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H.

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 i9-12950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.