Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core Ultra 9 285K vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Core i7 X 990 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores than the Core i7 X 990. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7 X 990. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7 X 990

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 9 285K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.