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Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen AI Max 390

60 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
VS
76 out of 100
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 16-cores against the 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 with 12-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 390 and 185H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 5 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
  • Has 40 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • More powerful Radeon 8050S integrated graphics: 11.5 vs 4.8 TFLOPS
  • Supports quad-channel memory
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer - released 1 year and 1 month later
  • Supports up to 128 GB LPDDR5X-8000 RAM
  • 26% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3072 vs 2446 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 9 185H
vs
Ryzen AI Max 390

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (156th and 85th 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 1650 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 153.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 426.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 483.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 307.1 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 72.3 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 191.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 32.4 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 146.5 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 90.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 316M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 53.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 25.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 487.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 2761 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 38.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 28 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 AI Max 390 +71%
342.35

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 24.7 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 344.6 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 758.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 6.22 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 AI Max 390
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen AI Max 390

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 7, 2025
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 5 (Strix Halo)
Model number 185H 390
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 8050S
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V -
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#16th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 12
P-Threads 12 24
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5 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 12
Total Threads 22 24
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 32x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 64MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-65 W (configurable) 45-55 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W 120 W
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP11
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (103rd and 27th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 8050S
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 1295 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2350 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1024 2048
TMUs 64 128
ROPs 32 64
Execution Units 128 32
TGP 28 W 55 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 9 185H
4.8 TFLOPS
Ryzen AI Max 390 +140%
11.5 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 8050S compared to Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - LPDDR5X-8000
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 128 GB
Memory Channels 2 4
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 256 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 16

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Comments

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