Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Core i7-8700K vs Core Ultra 9 285H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285H beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285H has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, 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 i7-8700K. The Core Ultra 9 285H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.