AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core Ultra 5 245K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D performs better than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 245K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 245K has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K.

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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.