Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Core i5-13400 vs Core Ultra 9 285H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285H beats the Core i5-13400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13400 that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400. The Core Ultra 9 285H also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.