Intel Core Ultra 5 225F vs i5 14400F

We compared two 10-core desktop CPUs: the 3.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 225F against the 2.5 GHz i5 14400F. 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
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Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
VS
132.1
(Excellent)
Value Index
67.4
(Good)

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 14400F and 225F
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
  • More modern manufacturing process โ€“ 3 versus 10 nanometers
  • Newer - released 11 months later
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-6400 RAM
  • Around 25.6 GB/s (33%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • 19% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2849 vs 2402 points
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)

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 (171st and 177th 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 1320 MB/sec 1180 MB/sec
Clang compilation 110.4 Klines/sec 82.1 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 352.8 pages/sec 322.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 373 Mpixels/sec 378.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 318.6 pages/sec 241.4 pages/sec
Background blur 71.7 images/sec 54.2 images/sec
Photo processing 130.9 images/sec 125.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 21.6 Mpixels/sec 19.6 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 80 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 66.4 GOps/sec 81.5 GOps/sec
Floating point math 92.5 GOps/sec 61.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 353M Primes/sec 86M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 37.3M Strings/sec 32.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 22.6 GBytes/sec 16.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 310.8 MBytes/sec 315.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 2429 Frames/sec 1518 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 28B Matrices/sec 19.9B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 677 & 6004 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
213.75

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 14.5 PPW 14.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 226.6 PPW 193.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 476.9 PPW 391.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.29 PPW 3.02 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 225F
No benchmark results yet
Intel Core i5 14400F
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-06 (Ryuk)Cinebench 2024105 / 868
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-04 (zaheer)Cinebench 2026569 / 3046
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-08-08 (Althy)Cinebench 2024109 / 931
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-08-07 (Striden Von)Cinebench 2024105 / 927
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-08-05 (Striden Von)Cinebench 202498 / 870

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 225F and i5 14400F

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released December 18, 2024 January 9, 2024
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Raptor Lake Refresh
Model number 225F i5-14400F
Integrated GPU No No
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 9600X - AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
Successor - - Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
Intel CPU rating (62nd and 107th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 6
P-Threads 6 12
Base Frequency (P) 3.3 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.9 GHz 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 4
E-Threads 4 4
Base Frequency (E) 2.7 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
Total
Total Cores 10 10
Total Threads 10 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 33x 25x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 3MB (per core) 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache 20MB (shared) 20MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 65 W 65 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 121 W 148 W
Socket FCLGA-1851 LGA-1700
Peak Temperature 105ยฐC 100ยฐC
Desktop CPU ranking (65th and 89th place)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-6400 - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 192 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 225F official page Intel Core i5 14400F official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 24 20

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