Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX

Core i9-12900H vs Core Ultra 7 255HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255HX beats the Core i9-12900H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has many more cores than the Core i9-12900H. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has 20 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255HX. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.