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Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

60 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
VS
60 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

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 7940HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7940HS 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 - released 11 months later
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 9 185H
vs
Ryzen 9 7940HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (154th and 172nd place)
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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)
File compression 1270 MB/sec 962.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 211.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 326.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 260.3 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 87.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 492 & 569 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 102.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 62.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 21.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 360.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 1427 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 27.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 2780 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core Ultra 9 185H
200.07
Ryzen 9 7940HS +13%
225.69

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 215.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 551.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 4.18 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
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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (chrisg)Cinebench 2024105 / 873
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-19 (Phillywilly2000)Cinebench 2024102 / 906
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-14 (GlancingOcean)Cinebench 202470 / 677
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-13 (antoooooo)Cinebench 2024109 / 1009
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-08 (沧桷)GeekBench2614 / 12911
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 185H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Intel Core i9 13900H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#66th 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

Transistors - 25 billions
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 (102nd and 105th 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
Core Ultra 9 185H +12%
4.8 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 7940HS
4.3 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
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 7940HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 9 7940HS:
    - DDR5 memory is supported only on the FP7r2 socket, while FP7 and FP8 sockets support LPDDR5/x.
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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Comments

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