AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core Ultra 7 265F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core Ultra 7 265F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 265F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 265F has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D that has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 265F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 265F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 265F 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 7 265F.

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