Intel Core Ultra 7 165H vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 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

6976 points
7135 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9640 points
6% slightly better gaming score
9019 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6199 points
6520 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6011 points
6356 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

193.42 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
172.91 points

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
3.30 GHz
135% significantly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

18 MiB
350% significantly more L2 cache
4 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

196th of 1,089
183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core Ultra 7 165H vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H performs better than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Core Ultra 7 165H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 165H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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