AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Compared 2 processors: AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Single-Thread Perf.
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Multi-Thread Perf.
Multi-Core Benchmark Score
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
Integrated Graphics
iGPU Performance in Games & 3D
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
Cinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
2155
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
1809
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
35872
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
18420
Cinebench 2024
Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
129
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
107
Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
2058
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
987
PassMark
PassMark CPU (Single-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
n/a
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
3701
PassMark CPU (Multi-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
n/a
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
29410
Integer Mathn/a98.3 GOps/s
Floating-Point Mathn/a73.4 GOps/s
Prime Number Searchn/a123 M primes/s
Random String Sortn/a39.6 M strings/s
Data Encryptionn/a19.9 GB/s
Data Compressionn/a340.2 MB/s
Physicsn/a1962 frames/s
Extended Instructionsn/a203 M matrices/s
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
3230
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
2446
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
19563
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
13613
File Compressionn/a1270 MB/s
Clang Compilationn/a102.8 KLines/s
HTML5 Browsern/a342.7 pages/s
PDF Renderingn/a389.7 MP/sec
Text Processingn/a245.1 pages/s
Background Blurn/a45.2 frames/s
Photo Processingn/a131.5 frames/s
Ray Tracingn/a23.3 MP/sec

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
n/a
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
200.07

Performance/Watt

Points per watt of PL1 TDP
Geekbench 6 Multi / W 260.8 PPW 209.4 PPW
PassMark CPU / W n/a 452.5 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / W 27.4 PPW 15.2 PPW
Blender / W n/a 3.08 PPW

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Intel
Announced January, 7, 2025 December, 14, 2023
Type Laptop use Laptop use
Architecture x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 5 (Fire Range) Meteor Lake
Model number 9955HX 185H
Integrated GPU Radeon 610M Arc Graphics (8-Cores)

Processor

Performance cores
Cores 16 6
Threads 32 12
Frequency 2.5 GHz 2.3 GHz
Max Frequency (Turbo) 5.4 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficiency cores
Coresn/a10
Threadsn/a10
Frequencyn/a1.8 GHz
Max Frequency (Turbo)n/a3.8 GHz
General
Cores count1616
Threads count3222
Bus frequency100 MHz100 MHz
Multiplier25x23x
L1 cache80 KB/core112 KB/core
L2 cache1000 KB/core2000 KB/core
L3 Cache64 MB total24 MB total
Unlocked multiplierYesNo

Package

Process tech. 4 nm 7 nm
Power (TDP) 55-75 W 35-65 W
Max TDP (Boost) 101 W 115 W
Socket FL1 FCBGA-2049
Critical temp. 100 °C 110 °C

Memory Support

Memory Type DDR5-5600 - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
Max Size 96 GB 96 GB
Channels 2 2
ECC support No No

Other

PCIe Version 5.0 5.0
Max PCIe Lanes 28 28
Tech n/a - Compute: ABM, ADX, AI Boost NPU 3, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, DLBoost 3.0, F16C, SHA, VNNI
- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0, TBT 3.0, TSX
- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x
- Security: RDRAND, TXT, XD bit, vPro

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX the clear winner in this comparison.

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