Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core Ultra 9 185H vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500HX performs better than the Core Ultra 9 185H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 185H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-13500HX that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500HX. In terms of clock speed, the Core Ultra 9 185H and Core i5-13500HX 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 i5-13500HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Ultra 9 185H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.