Core Ultra 5 225H Arrow Lake-H mobile CPU is no match for Ryzen AI 9 365 per leaked Geekbench 6 results
With the launch of the desktop Arrow Lake CPUs out of the way, Intel is expected to unveil the mobile Arrow Lake-H CPUs next. The series reportedly consists of five SKUs with the Core Ultra 5 225H at the bottom and the Core Ultra 9 285H occupying the top of the stack. Following the appearance of the Core Ultra 9 285H on Geekbench, the entry-level Core Ultra 5 225H has now also appeared on Geekench 6.
It is important to mention here that, while the Geekbench 6 results in question are valid, the Core Ultra 5 225H hasn’t been officially launched and chances are high that we are looking at a non-retail sample.
Core Ultra 5 225H performance
The Core Ultra 5 225H sample under discussion obtained scores of 2,592 and 12,550 in the Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core benchmarks, respectively. The chip was seemingly running at a base clock of 1.7 GHz and a boost clock of around 4.88 GHz. Although slightly different, these clock speeds are in line with the expected P-core base and boost frequencies of the Core Ultra 5 225H.
Based on these Geekbench 6 scores, the Core Ultra 5 225H is around 15.3% faster and 4% slower than the Core Ultra 7 258V in multi-core and single-core Geekbench 6 benchmarks, respectively, per our database. This is an expected result since the Lunar Lake chip has a TDP of 17 W while the Core Ultra 5 225H is expected to clock in at 28 W.
The comparison with the Core Ultra 5 125H is more apt since the Meteor Lake chip is similarly positioned and has the same 28 W base TDP. Here, the Core Ultra 5 225H appears to be 10% ahead in the multi-core department and 14% ahead in the single-core benchmark.
Finally, the Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 365 with a base TDP of 28 W has an 8% and 7% advantage in single-core and multi-core Geekbench 6, respectively. It’ll be interesting to see if the retail versions of the Core Ultra 5 225H can manage to reduce this gap in performance.
Core Ultra 5 225H specifications
While the leaked Geekbench 6 performance of the Core Ultra 5 225H is nothing to write home about when compared with the latest mobile CPUs, reported specs of the chip portray it as an entry-level SKU for thin and light laptops and not a performance beast.
Specs-wise, the Core Ultra 5 225H reportedly carries 4x Lion Cove P-core, 8x Skymont E-cores, and 2x Crestmont LP E-cores. These Lion Cove P-cores are expected to have a base/boost clock speed of 1.6/5.0 GHz, while the Crestmont E-cores could run at a much slower 1.3/4.3 GHz. Additionally, the chip could have 28 MB of L3 cache.
Moving over to the iGPU side, the Core Ultra 5 225H allegedly gets an “Alchemist+” Xe-LPG+ Arc 130T iGPU with 7 Xe cores. It remains to be seen what kind of performance we can expect out of this new iGPU.
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