Intel Core i9-7980XE vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core i9-7980XE vs Core Ultra 5 225H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 225H is faster than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has slightly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 225H. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.