Intel Core Ultra 5 135U vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 12 core CPU vs AMD 9 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

5620 points
5669 points
0.87% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7748 points
8% slightly better gaming score
7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4993 points
5211 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4839 points
5104 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

121.36 points
136.28 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8338 points
12689 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
33% slightly more cores
9

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14
18
28% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.19 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

10 MiB
122% significantly more L2 cache
4.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

285th of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core Ultra 5 135U vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the EPYC 74F3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 135U has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U.

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 Ultra 5 135U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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