Intel Core Ultra 7 155H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1499.99
$ 273.07
$ 1226.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7084 points
9769 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9220 points
11596 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6469 points
9145 points
41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6362 points
8951 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6426 points
7917 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.93 points
245.43 points
53% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

22
37% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.4 GHz
4.2 GHz
200% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.1 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

18 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 1,089
95th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core Ultra 7 155H vs Ryzen 7 8700G benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8700G performs better than the Core Ultra 7 155H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 155H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700G. The Core Ultra 7 155H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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