AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core Ultra 5 225 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225 beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 225 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. The Core Ultra 5 225 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.