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Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

60 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
VS
46 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 16-cores against the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 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 7730U and 185H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (8-Cores) integrated graphics: 4.8 vs 2 TFLOPS
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Supports up to 96 GB LPDDR5-7467 RAM
  • Newer - released 11 months later
  • More than 15Β° C higher critical temperature
  • 21% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2446 vs 2027 points
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 9 185H
vs
Ryzen 7 7730U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#156th 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 781.6 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 69 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 163.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 266.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 217.6 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 35.8 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 64.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 17.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 492 & 1141 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 9 185H +71%
28998
Ryzen 7 7730U
16974
Integer math 97.4 GOps/sec 68.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 36.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 42M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 22.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 13.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 213 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 701 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 13.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 2990 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core Ultra 9 185H +53%
200.07
Ryzen 7 7730U
131.16

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 40.1 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 565.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 1131.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 8.74 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
Add View all (4)
AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-13 (johnson nick)Geekbench 6 CPU1848 / 6099
Add View all (1)

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 5, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 3 (Cezanne)
Model number 185H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon RX Vega 8
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Intel Core i7 1360P
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V -
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#131st place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 4.5 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 8
Total Threads 22 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 20x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 10.7 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-65 W (configurable) 15 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP6
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 95Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2350 MHz 2000 MHz
Shading Units 1024 512
TMUs 64 32
ROPs 32 8
Execution Units 128 8
TGP 28 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 9 185H +140%
4.8 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 7730U
2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 8 compared to Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4x-4267
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page AMD Ryzen 7 7730U official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Total votes: 8

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Comments

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