Ultra 9 185H vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
2022
8 cores / 16 threads, 35 Watt
14.29
Core Ultra 9 185H
2023
16 cores / 22 threads, 45 Watt
18.52
+29.6%

Core Ultra 9 185H outperforms Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS by a substantial 30% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking506324
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Meteor Lake-H
Power efficiency38.6438.95
Architecture codenameRembrandt-HS (Zen 3+) (2022)Meteor Lake-H (2023)
Release date19 April 2022 (2 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$640

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads1622
Base clock speed3.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Boost clock speed4.9 GHz5.1 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)112 KB (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)2 MB (per core)
L3 cache16 MB (shared)24 MB (shared)
Chip lithography6 nm7 nm
Die size208 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature95 °C110 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketFP7Intel BGA 2049
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsPRO, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEno data
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
TSX-+
Precision Boost 2+no data

Security technologies

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5DDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon 680M ( - 2400 MHz)Intel Arc 8-Cores iGPU ( - 2350 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS and Core Ultra 9 185H.

PCIe version4.05.0
PCI Express lanes208

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 14.29
Ultra 9 185H 18.52
+29.6%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 22697
Ultra 9 185H 29416
+29.6%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 1903
Ultra 9 185H 2246
+18%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8756
Ultra 9 185H 11985
+36.9%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 6266
Ultra 9 185H 10244
+63.5%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 36583
Ultra 9 185H 62262
+70.2%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8.4
Ultra 9 185H 3.71
+126%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 22
Ultra 9 185H 35
+57%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 1913
Ultra 9 185H 2809
+46.8%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 239
Ultra 9 185H 268
+12.1%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 2.82
Ultra 9 185H 3.19
+13.1%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 11.7
+3.5%
Ultra 9 185H 11.3

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 5970
Ultra 9 185H 7940
+33%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 103
Ultra 9 185H 162
+57.2%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 222
Ultra 9 185H 318
+43.2%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 7664
Ultra 9 185H 13531
+76.6%

Blender(-)

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 264
+49.2%
Ultra 9 185H 177

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 1549
Ultra 9 185H 1858
+19.9%

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 5516
Ultra 9 185H 5540
+0.4%

7-Zip

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 49474
Ultra 9 185H 71843
+45.2%

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 274
Ultra 9 185H 289
+5.5%

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 1345
Ultra 9 185H 1770
+31.6%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 14.29 18.52
Integrated graphics card 14.92 18.49
Recency 19 April 2022 14 December 2023
Physical cores 8 16
Threads 16 22
Chip lithography 6 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 45 Watt

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 28.6% lower power consumption.

Ultra 9 185H, on the other hand, has a 29.6% higher aggregate performance score, 23.9% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, and 100% more physical cores and 37.5% more threads.

The Core Ultra 9 185H is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS in performance tests.


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