Intel Core Ultra 5 225H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

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 8845HS 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 8845HS and 225H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 1 year and 1 month later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.9 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 2026 (Single) - 570
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 4125
Cinebench Scores (156th 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 1170 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 95.1 Klines/sec 96.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 335.7 pages/sec 278.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 352.6 Mpixels/sec 374.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 296.4 pages/sec 261.9 pages/sec
Background blur 59.8 images/sec 59.9 images/sec
Photo processing 125 images/sec 110.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.9 Mpixels/sec 22.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 158 samples

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 GOps/sec
Floating point math 86.6 GOps/sec 58.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 220M Primes/sec 86M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 33.7M Strings/sec 41.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 21.4 GBytes/sec 20.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 283.4 MBytes/sec 341.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1875 Frames/sec 1339 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 21.9B Matrices/sec 25.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 750 & 3870 samples

Blender

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

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35.8 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 478.4 PPW 241.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1004.4 PPW 523.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 7.33 PPW 3.8 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“˜ 2026-10-12 (TAANCHI)Geekbench 6 CPU2721 / 12978
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-12 (TAANCHI)Cinebench 20260 / 3292
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-30 (vsm)Geekbench 6 CPU2721 / 15088
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-15 (AbduAlhuzali)Geekbench 6 CPU2698 / 14644
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-30 (BatmanKun)Geekbench 6 CPU2643 / 14536
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-15 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Geekbench 6 CPU2718 / 13855
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-09 (MaidElle)Geekbench 6 CPU2514 / 12971
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 CPU2331 / 10135

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 225H and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 6, 2025 December 6, 2023
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 Core Ultra 7 165H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 7 260
Intel CPU rating (#68th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#59th 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 5.1 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 (78th and 92nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics 130T Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2700 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
4.1 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 AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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