AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Core Ultra 5 245K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D beats the Core Ultra 5 245K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 245K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K.

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 9950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.