AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points
10018 points
0.07% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points
12576 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
9171 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
8902 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
199.93 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11870 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2425 points

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

4.20 GHz
147% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
2% 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

96 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 1,089
87th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 225H performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 225H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H.

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 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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