AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core Ultra 9 285K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285K. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.