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

Core i9-9900K vs Core Ultra 7 165H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-9900K. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Core Ultra 7 165H also has significantly more 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.