AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core Ultra 5 225H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225H beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS. 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 9 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.