Intel Core Ultra 5 235 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

10867 points

11415 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13656 points

1% slightly better gaming score

13499 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9935 points

10715 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9663 points

10514 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

4.7 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

26 MiB

224% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

96 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 1,089

60th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core Ultra 5 235 vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D performs better than the Core Ultra 5 235. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 235 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 235 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 235. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 235. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 235 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 235.

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 5 235 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.