Intel Core Ultra 9 285H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

7707 points
1% slightly better overall score
7598 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10126 points
10348 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6950 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6726 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6473 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

234.24 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
199.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
4.00 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB
366% significantly more L2 cache
6 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

158th of 1,089
162nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-8400
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core Ultra 9 285H vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 9 285H performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H.

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 9 285H has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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