AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Core Ultra 9 285H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Core Ultra 9 285H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 9600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H.

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 Ryzen 5 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.