AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 212.99
$ 16.69 slightly less expensive
$ 229.68

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7420 points
12485 points
68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8999 points
14509 points
61% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6901 points
11786 points
70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6758 points
11525 points
70% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6914 points
12436 points
79% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points
321.20 points
54% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
14% slightly more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
4.2 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.2 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

4 MiB
26 MiB
550% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

184th of 1,126
49th of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700X vs Core Ultra 5 245K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 245K beats the Ryzen 7 5700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K.

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 7 5700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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