Intel Core i5-12600KF vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Core i5-12600KF vs Core Ultra 9 185H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600KF is faster than the Core Ultra 9 185H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 185H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12600KF has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 185H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 185H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.