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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
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Summary
Introduction:
The Intel Core Ultra 7 265U (Meteor Lake U Refresh) is an energy-efficient Intel mobile processor for thin laptops, focused on AI acceleration.
The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 (Hawk Point, Zen 4) is an AMD mobile processor for business and mainstream notebooks, offering balanced performance and PRO features.
Manufacturing Process, Cores and Performance: The Intel Core Ultra 7 265U is manufactured using a 3 nm process, utilizes a hybrid architecture with NPU and 12 MB L2 cache. It delivers comparable single- and multi-core performance to the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250. The latter is manufactured using a 4 nm process, based on Zen 4 with typically 8 cores/16 threads, 8 MB L2 and 16 MB L3 cache.
Gaming and Energy Efficiency: In games, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 with its AMD Radeon 780M graphics offers better performance than the Intel Core Ultra 7 265U with its Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake). Both U-series processors are very energy-efficient, ideal for laptops with long battery life.
The Intel offers 134 GB/s, the AMD 120 GB/s memory bandwidth. Price-Performance Ratio and Recommendation: Prices are not available as they are built into laptops. The price-performance ratio depends on the overall system. The Intel Core Ultra 7 265U is recommended for energy efficiency and AI applications.
The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 is the better choice for superior integrated graphics performance and business environments.
The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 (Hawk Point, Zen 4) is an AMD mobile processor for business and mainstream notebooks, offering balanced performance and PRO features.
Manufacturing Process, Cores and Performance: The Intel Core Ultra 7 265U is manufactured using a 3 nm process, utilizes a hybrid architecture with NPU and 12 MB L2 cache. It delivers comparable single- and multi-core performance to the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250. The latter is manufactured using a 4 nm process, based on Zen 4 with typically 8 cores/16 threads, 8 MB L2 and 16 MB L3 cache.
Gaming and Energy Efficiency: In games, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 with its AMD Radeon 780M graphics offers better performance than the Intel Core Ultra 7 265U with its Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake). Both U-series processors are very energy-efficient, ideal for laptops with long battery life.
The Intel offers 134 GB/s, the AMD 120 GB/s memory bandwidth. Price-Performance Ratio and Recommendation: Prices are not available as they are built into laptops. The price-performance ratio depends on the overall system. The Intel Core Ultra 7 265U is recommended for energy efficiency and AI applications.
The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 is the better choice for superior integrated graphics performance and business environments.
Intel Core Ultra 7 265U
- 3 nm manufacturing process
- Hybrid architecture with NPU
- High energy efficiency
- Good performance for general tasks
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
- Strong integrated AMD Radeon 780M graphics
- Zen 4 architecture with high multi-core performance
- PRO features for business environments
- Balanced performance for productivity
Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Core Ultra 7 265U
100 %
12C / 14T · 5.30 GHz
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
99 %
8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Intel Core Ultra 7 265U
100 %
12C / 14T · 2.10 GHz
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
99 %
8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake)
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
100 %
AMD Radeon 780M
AI performance (NPU)
12C / 14T · 2.10 GHz
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
100 %
8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz
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Specifications
At a glance
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| Family | Intel Core Ultra 7 (31) | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO (23) |
| CPU group | Intel Core Ultra 200U (4) | AMD Ryzen 200 (11) |
| Architecture | Meteor Lake U Refresh | Hawk Point (Zen 4) |
| Technology | 3 nm | 4 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | BGA 2049 | FP8 |
| Predecessor | Intel Core Ultra 7 165U | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| CPU Cores / Threads | 12 / 14 | 8 / 16 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✓ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Redwood Cove 2.10 - 5.30 GHz |
8x Zen 4 3.30 - 5.10 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 8x Crestmont 1.70 - 4.20 GHz |
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| Core Cluster 3: | 2x Crestmont 0.70 - 2.40 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 12.00 MB | 8.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| GPU name | Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake) | AMD Radeon 780M |
| GPU frequency | 0.60 - 2.10 GHz | 0.80 - 2.70 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 64 / 512 | 12 / 768 |
| Raytracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 4 | 4 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| Technology | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Release date | Q4/2023 | Q1/2023 |
NPU AI performance
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| AI hardware | Intel® AI Boost | AMD Ryzen™ AI |
| AI specifications | Intel AI Boost @ 1.4 GHz (OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT) | AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU | 38 TOPS |
Memory & PCIe
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| Memory | LPDDR5X-8400 (134.4 GB/s) DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 128 GB | 256 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 x 20 | 4.0 x 20 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 39.4 GB/s | 39.4 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| TDP | 15 W | 28 W |
| TDP (PL2) | 57 W | |
| TDP up | 30 W | |
| TDP down | 12 W | 15 W |
| T. junction max. | 105 °C | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265U | AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 |
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| Chip design | Chiplet | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 11, Linux | Windows 11, Linux |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 |
| Release date | Q1/2025 | Q1/2024 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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