AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 225H is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

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 5900X that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H.

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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.