Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Core i9-11900F vs Core Ultra 9 185H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 185H beats the Core i9-11900F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11900F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-11900F and Core Ultra 9 185H are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900F. The Core Ultra 9 185H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.