Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Core i9-9900 vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 165H beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-9900 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. The Core Ultra 7 165H 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.