AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Compare AMD 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

8985 points
10018 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10717 points
12576 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8377 points
9171 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8167 points
8902 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.18 points
199.93 points
16% slightly 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

3.80 GHz
123% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

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

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 1,092
88th of 1,092

Family

The product line

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Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 7 7840H vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 225H performs better than the Ryzen 7 7840H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840H has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Core Ultra 5 225H 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 7 7840H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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