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Intel Core Ultra 9 288V vs Ultra 9 185H

62 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
VS
60 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 288V with 8-cores against the 2.3 GHz Ultra 9 185H with 16-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 185H and 288V
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer - released 9 months later
  • 17% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2864 vs 2446 points
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • Supports up to 96 GB LPDDR5-7467 RAM
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Has 12 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 9 288V
vs
Core Ultra 9 185H

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#154th 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 1020 MB/sec 1270 MB/sec
Clang compilation 69 Klines/sec 102.8 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 278.5 pages/sec 342.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 290.7 Mpixels/sec 389.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 312.1 pages/sec 245.1 pages/sec
Background blur 49.8 images/sec 45.2 images/sec
Photo processing 117 images/sec 131.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.5 Mpixels/sec 23.3 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 44 GOps/sec 97.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 59.5 GOps/sec 72.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 194M Primes/sec 123M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 22.6M Strings/sec 39M Strings/sec
Data encryption 14.1 GBytes/sec 19.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 186.1 MBytes/sec 334.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1634 Frames/sec 1940 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 15.6B Matrices/sec 19.9B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 500 & 4148 samples

Blender

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

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 17 PPW 15.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 299.2 PPW 209.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 534.6 PPW 446.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.63 PPW 3.08 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
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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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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 288V and Ultra 9 185H

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released September 4, 2024 December 14, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lunar Lake Meteor Lake
Model number 288V 185H
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics 140V Arc Graphics (8-Cores)
Rival Equivalent - - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Successor - - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
Intel CPU rating (72nd and 83rd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 4 12
Base Frequency (P) 3.3 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 10
E-Threads 4 10
Base Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.7 GHz 3.8 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 16
Total Threads 8 22
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 33x 23x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 112K (per core)
L2 Cache 2560K (per core) 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 17-37 W (configurable) 35-65 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 37 W 115 W
Socket FCBGA-2833 FCBGA-2049
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 110Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (82nd and 102nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Arc Graphics 140V Arc Graphics (8-Cores)
GPU Base Clock 600 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2050 MHz 2350 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1024
TMUs - 64
ROPs - 32
Execution Units - 128
TGP 30 W 28 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 9 288V
4.2 TFLOPS
Core Ultra 9 185H +14%
4.8 TFLOPS
More info: Arc iGPU (8-Cores) compared to Arc 140V

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-8533 - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
Max. Memory Size 32 GB 96 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 288V official page Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 8 28

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Comments

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