AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Core Ultra 9 185H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 9 185H performs better than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Z1 Extreme that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 185H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. 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 Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.