Intel Core Ultra 7 155H vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 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
$ 455.05
$ 1044.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7084 points
10982 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9220 points
13108 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6469 points
10252 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6362 points
10031 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6426 points
10082 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.93 points
325.43 points
103% 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
4.7 GHz
235% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.2 GHz
8% 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
96 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 November

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
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Core Ultra 7 155H vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Core Ultra 7 155H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 155H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155H. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 155H.

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 Ultra 7 155H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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