Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Core i9-9900 vs Core Ultra 5 125H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900 beats the Core Ultra 5 125H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-9900. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. The Core Ultra 5 125H also has slightly 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.