AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Core Ultra 5 225 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225 beats the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 225 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.