Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX vs AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 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

17532 points
56% significantly better overall score
11227 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15815 points
30% slightly better gaming score
12120 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18156 points
63% significantly better multitasking score
11094 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18414 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score
11316 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

515.66 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
458.55 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

40 MiB
150% significantly more L2 cache
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

5th of 1,089
65th 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

DDR5-6400
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core Ultra 9 285HX vs RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285HX is faster than the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has 16 cores. Despite this, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285HX. With our hardware info, we find that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285HX. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285HX has more L2 cache than the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395. Despite this, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285HX.

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 9 285HX has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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