Intel Core i9-14900HX vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Core i9-14900HX vs Core Ultra 9 285K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Core i9-14900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-14900HX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-14900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.