Intel Core Ultra 7 255H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Core Ultra 7 255H vs Core Ultra 5 225H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225H beats the Core Ultra 7 255H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 255H has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. Also, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core Ultra 5 225H. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 7 255H has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.