AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX

Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Core Ultra 7 255HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 255HX 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 255HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 255HX.

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