Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Core i9-12900H vs Core Ultra 9 185H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900H performs better 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 185H has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900H. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. According to our data, the Core i9-12900H and Core Ultra 9 185H have the same clock 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.