Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 758.99
$ 1639.96 significantly less expensive
$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17900 points
215% significantly better overall score
5669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16115 points
126% significantly better gaming score
7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18547 points
255% significantly better multitasking score
5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18824 points
268% significantly better heavy workload score
5104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

555.81 points
307% significantly higher Blender score
136.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

22613 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12689 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3204 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
166% significantly more cores
9

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
33% slightly more threads
18

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.19 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

40 MiB
788% significantly more L2 cache
4.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

4th of 1,089
278th 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

2024 November
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-6400
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core Ultra 9 285K vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285K is faster than the EPYC 74F3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores than the EPYC 74F3. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has 24 cores compared to 9 cores found in the EPYC 74F3. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 74F3. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. The Core Ultra 9 285K also has slightly 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. For instance, the Core Ultra 9 285K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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