Intel Core Ultra 7 258V vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.2 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 258V with 8-cores against the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10-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 365 and 258V
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 258V
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • Has 12 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.8 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 (#137th 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 1020 MB/sec 1240 MB/sec
Clang compilation 66.1 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 287.7 pages/sec 296.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 295.6 Mpixels/sec 437.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 276.7 pages/sec 289 pages/sec
Background blur 46.5 images/sec 65.4 images/sec
Photo processing 113.9 images/sec 122.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 14 Mpixels/sec 25.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 42.9 GOps/sec 103.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 57.4 GOps/sec 64.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 185M Primes/sec 120M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21.6M Strings/sec 40.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 13.5 GBytes/sec 18.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 176.6 MBytes/sec 370.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1565 Frames/sec 1711 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 14.7B Matrices/sec 26.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2133 & 879 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
250.34

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 17.2 PPW 19.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 291.9 PPW 258.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 510.4 PPW 562 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.48 PPW 4.64 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 7 258V
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-18 (THINKPAD T16 GEN4)Cinebench 2024122 / 584
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-06 (Matty)Cinebench 2024113 / 512
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondrajuGeekbench 6 CPU2869 / 11446
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-11 (Mark)Cinebench 2024117 / 1077
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-10 (rrevi)Geekbench 6 CPU2967 / 15033

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 258V and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released September 4, 2024 June 3, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lunar Lake Zen 5 (Strix Point)
Model number 258V 365
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics 140V Radeon 880M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
Intel CPU rating (#88th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#38th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 4 8
Base Frequency (P) 2.2 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.8 GHz 5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 6
E-Threads 4 12
Base Frequency (E) 2.2 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.7 GHz 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 10
Total Threads 8 20
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 22x 20x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 2560K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 17-37 W (configurable) 15-54 W (configurable)
Socket FCBGA-2833 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (111th and 62nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Arc Graphics 140V AMD Radeon 880M
GPU Base Clock 600 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1950 MHz 2900 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs - 48
ROPs - 16
Execution Units - 12
TGP 30 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
4.5 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-8533 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
Max. Memory Size 32 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 89.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 258V official page AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 8 16

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