Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Core i9-12900HK vs Core Ultra 9 285K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HK. The Core Ultra 9 285K 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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.