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

Core i9-11900K vs Core Ultra 9 185H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900K 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.

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 i9-11900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 185H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.