Intel Core i5-13500HX vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Core i5-13500HX vs Core Ultra 9 285H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285H beats the Core i5-13500HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-13500HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.