AMD Ryzen 5 7430U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 10 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

4404 points
9336 points
111% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6525 points
12806 points
96% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3759 points
8189 points
117% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3630 points
7901 points
117% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.99 points
221.91 points
155% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20% slightly more threads
10

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.9 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
22 MiB
633% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

400th of 1,089
103rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 7430U vs Core Ultra 5 225 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 225 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7430U 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 7430U that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Also, the Core Ultra 5 225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 225 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7430U. The Core Ultra 5 225 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7430U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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