Intel Core Ultra 5 225 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800U

We compared two CPUs: the 3.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 225 (desktop) with 10-cores against the 1.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5800U (laptop) with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5800U and 225
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 225
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-6400 RAM
  • Newer - released 4 years later
  • More modern manufacturing process โ€“ 3 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version โ€“ 5.0
  • 46% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2765 vs 1899 points
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 8 integrated graphics: 2 vs 0.5 TFLOPS

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#170th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1260 MB/sec 707 MB/sec
Clang compilation 104.6 Klines/sec 50.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 376.8 pages/sec 136.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 380.3 Mpixels/sec 220.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 309.7 pages/sec 191.1 pages/sec
Background blur 74 images/sec 32 images/sec
Photo processing 135.2 images/sec 57.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.6 Mpixels/sec 15.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 587 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
30460
Integer math 65.3 GOps/sec 71.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 92 GOps/sec 38.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 358M Primes/sec 47M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 36.6M Strings/sec 23M Strings/sec
Data encryption 22.3 GBytes/sec 14 GBytes/sec
Data compression 302.8 MBytes/sec 219.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 2340 Frames/sec 763 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 27.2B Matrices/sec 14.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 1024 & 970 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
175.37
140.26

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 14.6 PPW 10.4 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 229.4 PPW 299.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 468.6 PPW 718.2 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.7 PPW 5.61 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 5 225
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-08-15 (Rocketsteve)Cinebench 20260 / 3319
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-08-11 (Rocketsteve)Cinebench 2024122 / 904
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-08-11 (Rocketsteve)Cinebench 20260 / 3319
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-12-23 (Jiph0731)Cinebench 202467 / 323
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-06-13 (StarCry)Cinebench 202473 / 261

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 225 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 18, 2024 January 12, 2021
Type Desktop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Zen 3 (Cezanne)
Model number 225 -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics Radeon RX Vega 8
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 1195G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 7 250
Intel CPU rating (#66th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#148th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 6 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.3 GHz 1.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.9 GHz 4.4 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.7 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 10 8
Total Threads 10 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 33x 19x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 3MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 20MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 65 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 121 W -
Socket FCLGA-1851 FP6
Peak Temperature 105ยฐC 105ยฐC
Desktop CPU ranking (#67th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Arc Graphics Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Shading Units 128 512
TMUs 8 32
ROPs 4 8
Execution Units 16 8
TGP 6-15 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.5 TFLOPS
2 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-6400 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.37 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 225 official page AMD Ryzen 7 5800U official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 24 12

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So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 5800U or Intel Core Ultra 5 225?
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MZRT August 4, 2026 at 08:54 PM
On another page the Core Ultra 5 225U has 2TFLOPs and 12C/14T. On this page it has 0.5TFLOPs and 10cores/12 threads. So which is it?
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Serhii August 5, 2026 at 06:53 AM
It is 225U not 225 :)
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