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Intel Core Ultra 5 225U

Intel Ultra 5 225U

The Intel Core Ultra 5 225U is an upper mid-range CPU with 12 cores from the Meteor Lake U series, which was introduced at the beginning of 2025. The chip is similar to the Meteor Lake U series, but the compute part is manufactured in the modern Intel 3 process and therefore offers higher clock rates.

The SoC continues to rely on a tile/chiplet design. The smaller compute tile (compared to the H processors) offers 2 performance cores (P cores, Redwood Cove architecture, SMT) and 8 efficiency cores (E cores, Crestmont architecture). The P-cores support hyperthreading (therefore 14 threads together) and clock up to 4.8 GHz. The E-cores clock at a maximum of 3.8 GHz. In addition, there are now two more low-power efficiency cores with up to 2.4 GHz on the low-power island; the compute tile can therefore be completely deactivated when idle and during simple tasks in order to save power.

Performance

Due to the higher clock rates and the support of faster memory, the performance is slightly below the old top model Core Ultra 7 165U (12 cores, max 4.9 / 3.8 GHz) and well ahead of the old Core Ultra 5 135U (12 cores, max 4.4 / 3.6 GHz).

Graphics unit

The Core Ultra 5 225U offers a new Arc-based iGPU called Intel Graphics with 4 Xe cores and 64 EUs that reach a maximum of 2 GHz. However, the performance is far below the new Arc iGPU in the H series.

Features

Arrow Lake-U has integrated WiFi 6E (WiFi 7 optional). The integrated memory controller now supports LPDDR5/x-8400 or DDR5-6400 (max. 128 GB). A dedicated NPU (2x Gen3 Neural Compute Engines) is now used. The Xe Media Engine supports MPEG-2, AVC, VC-1 Decode, JPEG, VP8 Decode, VP9, HEVC and AV1 Decode up to 8K 10-bit HDR. The chip now supports PCIe-5.0 (x8 for GPU) and PCIe-4.0 (three x12 for SSDs).

Power consumption

The Intel Core Ultra 5 225U is specified with 15 watts TDP (base) and 57 watts (PL2) max. turbo power. Meteor Lake consists of five individual chips, whereby the processor part is manufactured using the new Intel 3 process (5 nm). The graphics unit is produced at TSMC in N5 and the SoC and I/O tile in the older N6 process. These 4 chips are then applied to the 22 nm base tile using the Foveros process.

CodenameArrow Lake-U
SeriesIntel Meteor Lake-U

Series: Meteor Lake-U Arrow Lake-U

Intel Core Ultra 7 265U compare2.4 - 5.3 GHz12 / 14 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core Ultra 7 255U compare3.8 - 4.8 GHz12 / 14 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core Ultra 5 235U compare2.4 - 4.9 GHz12 / 14 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core Ultra 5 225U « 2.4 - 4.8 GHz12 / 14 cores12 MB L3
Clock Rate2400 - 4800 MHz
Level 3 Cache12 MB
Number of Cores / Threads12 / 14
2 x 4.8 GHz Intel Redwood Cove P-Core
8 x 3.8 GHz Intel Crestmont E-Core
2 x 2.4 GHz Intel Crestmont E-Core
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)15 Watt
Manufacturing Technology5 nm
Max. Temperature110 °C
FeaturesDDR5-6400/LPDDR5-8400/LPDDR5x-8400 RAM, PCIe 4, Thread Director, DL Boost, AI Boost, vPro Enterp., RPE, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX-VNNI, FMA3, SHA
GPUIntel Graphics 4-Core iGPU (Arc) ( - 2000 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
Architecturex86
Announcement Date01/06/2025
Product Link (external)ark.intel.com

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Other CPUs of the series Meteor Lake-U

» Intel Core Ultra 7 265U
   12x 2.4 GHz - 5.3 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 7 255U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.8 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
   12x 2.4 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 7 165U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
   12x 2.4 GHz - 4.8 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.8 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 7 164U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.8 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 135U
   12x 3.6 GHz - 4.4 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 125U
   12x 3.6 GHz - 4.3 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 134U
   12x 3.6 GHz - 4.4 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 115U
   8x 0.7 GHz - 4.2 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
   8x 2.7 GHz - 4.75 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7735U
   8x 2.7 GHz - 4.75 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 5 228V
   8x 2.1 GHz - 4.5 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
   8x 2.1 GHz - 4.5 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 7 7736U
   8x 2.7 GHz - 4.7 GHz
» Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
   12x 2.4 GHz - 4.8 GHz
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.8 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6860Z
   8x 2.7 GHz - 4.75 GHz
- Intel Core Ultra 7 164U
   12x 3.8 GHz - 4.8 GHz
- Apple M1 Pro 8-Core
   8x 2.06 GHz - 3.22 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7730U
   8x 2 GHz - 4.5 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2025-01- 7)