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Intel Core i7-9700F vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 51 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

68 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

136 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

467 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

1,409 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,181 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

2,202 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

8,540 pts

20C / 20T · 4.60 GHz

25,459 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,570

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

3,115

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

7,202

20C / 20T · 4.60 GHz

20,735

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Intel Core Ultra 200 AL-S (20)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Arrow Lake
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151-2	LGA 1851
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i7-10700F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	20 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x 3.00 - 4.70 GHz	8x Lion Cove 2.40 - 5.30 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		12x Skymont 1.80 - 4.60 GHz
L2-Cache		36.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	33.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
GPU name	no iGPU	no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader	/	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
AI hardware		Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications		Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		182 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2019	Q1/2025
Release price	520 $	369 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-9700F is 4.3 stars (16 ratings), while Intel Core Ultra 7 265F has received 3.9 stars (34 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-9700F
8C / 8T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
20C / 20T · 2.40 - 5.30 GHz

★★★★★