Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Core i9-12900HK vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 165H beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 165H has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900HK. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.