Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

Core Ultra 9 185H vs Core i5-12600HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 185H is faster than the Core i5-12600HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 185H has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12600HX that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600HX. In terms of clock speed, the Core Ultra 9 185H and Core i5-12600HX are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 185H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12600HX. The Core Ultra 9 185H also has slightly 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 Ultra 9 185H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.