AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 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

9257 points

15155 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11296 points

14741 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8584 points

15354 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

15488 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7691 points

16352 points

112% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.59 points

466.44 points

119% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11517 points

17922 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2372 points

2844 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

40 MiB

400% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

36 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,089

21st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core Ultra 9 275HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 275HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 275HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 275HX. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 275HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 275HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Core Ultra 9 275HX 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.