AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core Ultra 9 185H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 185H beats the Ryzen 7 5800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 185H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800H. The Core Ultra 9 185H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.