AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core Ultra 9 285K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K.

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