Intel Xeon W-11855M vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX

Xeon W-11855M vs Core Ultra 9 285HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285HX is faster than the Xeon W-11855M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-11855M 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 Xeon W-11855M that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-11855M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285HX. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 Xeon W-11855M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.