AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

8883 points
1% slightly better overall score
8783 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9577 points
11548 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8669 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
7914 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8618 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
7677 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
199.93 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10663 points
11870 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2128 points
2425 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
71% significantly more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
22 MiB
266% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,105
120th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core Ultra 5 225H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900 is faster than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 225H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900 that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H 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 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 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 9 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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