AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX

Ryzen 9 9950X vs Core Ultra 9 285HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285HX beats the Ryzen 9 9950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X that has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285HX. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285HX.

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 9 9950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.