Intel Core Ultra 5 225H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.7 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 225H with 14-cores against the 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS 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
NanoReview Final Score
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8745HS and 225H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Newer - released 5 months later
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM

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 2026 (Single) - 536
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 3317
Cinebench Scores (154th and 194th 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 1170 MB/sec 1010 MB/sec
Clang compilation 95.1 Klines/sec 78.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 335.7 pages/sec 240.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 352.6 Mpixels/sec 329.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 296.4 pages/sec 241.6 pages/sec
Background blur 59.8 images/sec 51.4 images/sec
Photo processing 125 images/sec 100.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.9 Mpixels/sec 18.6 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 68.5 GOps/sec 97.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 86.6 GOps/sec 59.1 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 220M Primes/sec 88M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 33.7M Strings/sec 42.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 21.4 GBytes/sec 20.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 283.4 MBytes/sec 343.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 1875 Frames/sec 1381 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 21.9B Matrices/sec 25.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 750 & 1281 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
258.68

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35.8 PPW 15.8 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 478.4 PPW 204.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1004.4 PPW 529.2 PPW
Blender / Watt 7.33 PPW 4.79 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 225H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-30 (vsm)GeekBench2721 / 15088
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-15 (AbduAlhuzali)GeekBench2698 / 14644
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-30 (BatmanKun)GeekBench2643 / 14536
πŸ“˜ 2025-09-18 (goektug)GeekBench2782 / 14959
πŸ“˜ 2025-09-11 (vvvvv)GeekBench2791 / 15240
AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekBench2647 / 11684
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-17 -> RennsportCinebench 2026536 / 3317
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-16 (Jokodok)GeekBench1324 / 6061
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-12 (Jokodok)GeekBench2507 / 9693
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-18 -> RennsportCinebench 2024102 / 854

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 225H and AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 6, 2025 July 25, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number 225H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics 130T Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 230 -
Intel CPU rating (#67th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#56th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 1.7 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.9 GHz 4.9 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.3 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 8
Total Threads 14 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 17x 38x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP8
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (76th and 88th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics 130T Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2600 MHz
Shading Units 896 768
TMUs 56 48
ROPs 28 32
Execution Units 7 12
TGP 35 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.9 TFLOPS
4 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-8400
- LPDDR5x-8400
- DDR5-6400
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 225H official page -
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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