Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core Ultra 9 185H vs Core i9-13980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Core Ultra 9 185H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 185H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has 16 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 185H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 185H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 185H.

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.