AMD Ryzen 9000 vs. Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake On Linux For Q1-2025 In ~400 Benchmarks
With the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark the AMD Zen 5 CPUs all delivered much better performance than the tested Intel Arrow Lake CPUs on Firefox 135 and Chrome 133. But when it came to the performance-per-Watt with Speedometer 3.0 is where Arrow Lake came out ahead of these Zen 5 desktop CPUs.
With the Jetstream 2 browser benchmark in Firefox and Chrome on Linux, the Arrow Lake and Zen 5 performance was much tighter while on a performance-per-Watt basis the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 was the leader here.
With some of the WebAssembly (WASM) browser benchmarks the Intel Arrow Lake CPUs were able to come out in front but AMD Zen 5 remained fiercely competitive.
Moving to multi-threaded code compilation is where the Ryzen 9 9950X and other Zen 5 CPUs tend to shine. The 16-core / 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X continues outperforming the 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K in code compilation as well as consuming less power than that flagship Arrow Lake desktop processor.
