AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core Ultra 7 165H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 165H beats the Ryzen 9 5900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. The Core Ultra 7 165H 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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.