Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Core i9-11900K vs Core Ultra 9 285H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900K beats the Core Ultra 9 285H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

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 i9-11900K that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, 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 i9-11900K. The Core Ultra 9 285H 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.