AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Ryzen 7 9700X vs Core Ultra 9 285K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285K is faster than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Core Ultra 9 285K also has slightly 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 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.