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About This Product
The Intel Core Ultra 5 225F is a 10-core (6P+4E) desktop CPU designed for mainstream users. With a boost clock up to 4.7 GHz, it offers solid performance for general computing and gaming at 1080p to 1440p resolutions. Its Arrow Lake architecture and TSMC fabrication provide competitive efficiency and single-core performance compared to AMD's Ryzen 5 series in a similar price bracket.
Performance Benchmarks
Scores are grouped by benchmark family so it is easy to compare raw speed, threaded output, and real-world value without mixing scales.
Render Workloads
Next-Gen Scale
Large Sample Pool
Value & Efficiency
These derived metrics use Cinebench R23 multi-core performance to keep the value calculation consistent across the catalog.
Performance per Watt
261.8 pts/W
Performance per Dollar
101.6 pts/$
Gaming Performance
These results come from real submitted gameplay sessions, so the reference GPU matters as much as the CPU itself.
Reference GPU
Megabonk
Mixed player settings
164 FPS
Smooth
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GPU Bottleneck & Pairing
These pairings are pre-calculated around 1440p balance so you can move quickly from CPU research to a realistic gaming build.
High-confidence pairings that stay balanced at 1440p.
Recommended GPU
GeForce RTX 5080
Balanced
This pairing stays very close to ideal balance for 1440p gaming.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Strong combos with only minor trade-offs.
Recommended GPU
GeForce RTX 5090
Slight CPU bottleneck
Estimated CPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Slight GPU bottleneck
Estimated GPU limitation of 13% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
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Verdict
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