Intel Core Ultra 7 265K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 20 core CPU vs AMD 16 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

16691 points

2% slightly better overall score

16302 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15383 points

5% slightly better gaming score

14590 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17117 points

0.92% slightly better multitasking score

16961 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17234 points

17329 points

0.55% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16561 points

17230 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

467.43 points

643.21 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20585 points

22134 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3063 points

3395 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz

5.7 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

36 MiB

125% significantly more L2 cache

16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

128 MiB

326% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 1,089

14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-6400

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core Ultra 7 265K vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster than the Core Ultra 7 265K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 265K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 265K has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 265K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 265K. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 265K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K.

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 265K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.