Core Ultra 7 265K vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D
The Core Ultra 7 265K and the Ryzen 7 9800X3D land close enough that neither is meaningfully faster. The choice between them comes down to memory, power draw and price rather than performance.
Too close to call
Under 5% apart, which is inside the range where the two trade places depending on the workload.
Where the gap is
Each row is scaled to the larger of the two values, so the bars show how much of the leader the other one reaches — not a shared scale across rows. The real figure is printed on every bar.
Side by side
| Specification | Core Ultra 7 265K | Ryzen 7 9800X3D |
|---|---|---|
| Performance index | 9200 | 9000 |
| Cores | 20 | 8 |
| Threads | 20 | 16 |
| Boost clock | 5.5 GHz | 5.2 GHz |
| Base clock | 3.9 GHz | 4.1 GHz |
| Power draw | 250 W | 120 W |
| Socket | LGA 1851 | AM5 |
| Architecture | Arrow Lake | Zen 5 |
| Codename | — | Granite Ridge |
| Socket | — | AMD Socket AM5 |
| Process node | — | 4 nm |
| L2 cache | — | 1,024 KB |
| L3 cache | — | 98,304 KB |
| Memory channels | — | 2 |
| Supported memory | — | 5,600 MHz |
| Released | — | 2024-11-07 |
Detailed specifications from TechPowerUp.
How the gap is worked out
The percentage compares the two parts on the same relative performance index the site's bottleneck and build tools use, expressed as a share of the slower one. It is a single combined figure, not a frame rate: a specific game at a specific resolution can and will land either side of it, and a card with more memory pulls further ahead the moment a title needs that memory. Treat it as the size of the gap, not as a measurement of your machine.
Pair it with a processor
A faster card only shows up as faster frames if the processor can keep up with it. The bottleneck detector takes both and says which one is holding the other back.
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