Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core Ultra 9 285K vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Ryzen 9 9955HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX 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 Ryzen 9 9955HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285K. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K.

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