AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225F

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

10741 points
7% slightly better overall score
9993 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12741 points
13363 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10051 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
8865 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9837 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
8577 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
213.24 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
60% significantly more threads
10

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.9 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
22 MiB
175% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089
90th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core Ultra 5 225F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700 performs better than the Core Ultra 5 225F. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 225F has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225F. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225F.

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 7 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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