Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 16-cores against the 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX with 8-cores. 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 7745HX and 185H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (8-Cores) integrated graphics: 4.8 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Supports up to 96 GB LPDDR5-7467 RAM
  • Newer - released 11 months later
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • 13% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2763 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 140th 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 1360 MB/sec
Clang compilation 102.8 Klines/sec 118.1 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342.7 pages/sec 241.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 389.7 Mpixels/sec 385.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.1 pages/sec 284.5 pages/sec
Background blur 45.2 images/sec 64 images/sec
Photo processing 131.5 images/sec 88.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 23.3 Mpixels/sec 25.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 492 & 709 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 104.5 GOps/sec
Floating point math 72.2 GOps/sec 63.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 123M Primes/sec 156M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 39M Strings/sec 44.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec 22.7 GBytes/sec
Data compression 334.6 MBytes/sec 378.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1940 Frames/sec 1688 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.9B Matrices/sec 28.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4148 & 422 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
243.71

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 14.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 209.4 PPW 182.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 446.1 PPW 430.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.08 PPW 3.25 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 7 7745HX
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-22 -> DrmatorCinebench 2026599 / 4170
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-22 -> DrmatorGeekbench 7 CPU2533 / 15079
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-22 -> DrmatorGeekbench 6 CPU2835 / 13957

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Dragon Range)
Model number 185H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Intel Core i7 13650HX
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V -
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#62nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5.1 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 36x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 32MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors - 13.1 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-65 W (configurable) 45-75 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FL1
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (103rd and 92nd 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 7 7745HX official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 28

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