Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core Ultra 9 185H vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 185H. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 185H.

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.