Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 9 270

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 16-cores against the 4.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 270 with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
NanoReview Final Score
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 270 and 185H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 270
  • Supports up to 256 GB LPDDR5X-7500 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer - released 1 year and 1 month later
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (155th and 160th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
13613
12516
File compression 1270 MB/sec 1016.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 102.8 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 247.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 374.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 269.5 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 60.6 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 110.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 22.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 492 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 97.4 GOps/sec 97.8 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 59.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 88M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 42.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 20.7 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 349.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 1359 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 26.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 189 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
206.12

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 18 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 231.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 535.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 3.82 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-28 (Nicholas)Cinebench 202492 / 795
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-29 (Remembered2U)Cinebench 2024107 / 987
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-03 (Anish)Cinebench 2024103 / 886
πŸ“˜ 2024-10-01 (Guest #3)Cinebench 2024108 / 1088
AMD Ryzen 9 270
No benchmark results yet

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 9 270

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 7, 2025
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number 185H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS -
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V -
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#52nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.8 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 16 8
Total Threads 22 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 40x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-65 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP8
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (103rd and 82nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2350 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
4.8 TFLOPS
4.3 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-7500
- DDR5-5600
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page AMD Ryzen 9 270 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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