Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

We compared two 16-core laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H against the 2.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. 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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7945HX3D and 185H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (8-Cores) integrated graphics: 4.8 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • Supports up to 96 GB LPDDR5-7467 RAM
  • More than 21Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
  • Has 104 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.4 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)
  • 14% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2800 vs 2446 points

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 (156th and 46th 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)
File compression 1270 MB/sec 1520 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 178.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 299.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 456.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 288.5 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 60.1 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 104.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 36.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 492 & 67 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 202.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 121.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 443M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 84.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 42.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 704.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 4366 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 52.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 308 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
461.52

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 23.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 225.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 769.7 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 6.15 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 7945HX3D
No benchmark results yet

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 August 22, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Dragon Range)
Model number 185H 7945HX3D
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Intel Core i9 13950HX
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V - AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#23rd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 16
P-Threads 12 32
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5.4 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 16
Total Threads 22 32
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 23x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 128MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors - 17.8 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-65 W (configurable) 55-75 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FL1
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 89Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (103rd and 35th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2350 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1024 128
TMUs 64 8
ROPs 32 4
Execution Units 128 2
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
4.8 TFLOPS
0.6 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
- DDR5-5200
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 28

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Comments

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