Intel Core Ultra 7 265F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

We compared two desktop CPUs: the 2.4 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 265F with 20-cores against the 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7700 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
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Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
VS
66.0
(Good)
Value Index
62.9
(Average)

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7700 and 265F
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
  • Has 12 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 2 years later
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-6400 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process โ€“ 3 versus 5 nanometers
  • More than 10ยฐ C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7700
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Includes an integrated GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

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) - 569
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 3635
Cinebench Scores (69th and 142nd 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)
19924
15543
File compression 1350 MB/sec 1630 MB/sec
Clang compilation 189.3 Klines/sec 123.1 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 439.7 pages/sec 317.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 561.5 Mpixels/sec 441.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 334.5 pages/sec 305.3 pages/sec
Background blur 84.8 images/sec 68.9 images/sec
Photo processing 153.2 images/sec 115.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 41.4 Mpixels/sec 25.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 439 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
49389
34322
Integer math 138 GOps/sec 109.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 173.6 GOps/sec 66 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 415M Primes/sec 179M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 62.4M Strings/sec 48.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 39.5 GBytes/sec 23.7 GBytes/sec
Data compression 506.9 MBytes/sec 403.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 3165 Frames/sec 1948 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 39.2B Matrices/sec 30.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 852 & 6714 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
327.89
276.07

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 23.1 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 306.5 PPW 239.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 759.8 PPW 528 PPW
Blender / Watt 5.04 PPW 4.25 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 265F
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-02-02 (Patriot)GeekBench3198 / 22864
AMD Ryzen 7 7700
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-07 (Arif Ahmed)Cinebench 2026583 / 3839
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-06-23 (icejay08)Cinebench 2026569 / 3635
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-11-30 (Trawkie)Cinebench 2024117 / 1166
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-10-31 (yo754)Cinebench 2024116 / 1087
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-02-27 (Gene Gulanes)Cinebench 2024117 / 1162

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 265F and AMD Ryzen 7 7700

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 18, 2024 January 10, 2023
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Zen 4 (Raphael)
Model number 265F 7700
Integrated GPU No Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 13700
Intel CPU rating (#17th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#42nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 8
P-Threads 8 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.4 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.3 GHz 5.3 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 12 -
E-Threads 12 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.6 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 20 8
Total Threads 20 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 24x 38x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 3MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 30MB (shared) 32MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors - 6.57 billions
Fabrication Process 3 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 65 W 65 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 182 W 142 W
Socket FCLGA-1851 AM5
Peak Temperature 105ยฐC 95ยฐC
Desktop CPU ranking (25th and 56th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics - Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
GPU Base Clock - 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock - 2200 MHz
Shading Units - 128
TMUs - 8
ROPs - 4
Execution Units - 2
TGP - 15 W
iGPU FLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-6400 - DDR5-5200
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 128 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 73.4 GB/s
ECC Support Yes Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 265F official page AMD Ryzen 7 7700 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 24 28

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