AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 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

10538 points
10867 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9595 points
13656 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10967 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
9935 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11265 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
9663 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
304.58 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
14% slightly more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
128% significantly more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
3.4 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
26 MiB
62% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

80th of 1,120
77th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Core Ultra 5 235 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 235 performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 235 that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 235. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 235 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 235 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 235.

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

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