AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8895 points
15% slightly better overall score
7707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points
7% slightly better gaming score
10126 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
6950 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
6726 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points
234.24 points
4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
28 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core Ultra 9 285H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945H is faster than the Core Ultra 9 285H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core Ultra 9 285H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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