Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX

Core i9-9880H vs Core Ultra 9 285HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285HX beats the Core i9-9880H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9880H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-9880H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9880H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9880H. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9880H. The Core Ultra 9 285HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.