AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225F

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Core Ultra 5 225F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Core Ultra 5 225F. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 225F has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225F. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 225F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 225F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core Ultra 5 225F also has significantly 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 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.