Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs Apple M2 Ultra
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We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 16-cores against the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 Ultra with 24-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
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
Choose your main usage scenario to recalculate the Final Score and see which CPU suits your needs.
Key Differences
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
- Newer PCI Express version β 5.0
- Newer - released 7 months later
- More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
- Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
- Has 8 more physical cores
- More modern manufacturing process β 5 versus 7 nanometers
- 10% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2685 vs 2446 points
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
| Cinebench 2026 (Multi) | - | 7481 |
Cinebench Scores (156th and 31st place)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 1270 MB/sec | 2140 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 102.8 Klines/sec | 226.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 342.7 pages/sec | 569.8 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 389.7 Mpixels/sec | 603.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 245.1 pages/sec | 272.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 45.2 images/sec | 56.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 131.5 images/sec | 170.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 23.3 Mpixels/sec | 33.8 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 97.4 GOps/sec | 117.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 72.2 GOps/sec | 148.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 123M Primes/sec | 712M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 39M Strings/sec | 83.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 19.5 GBytes/sec | 32 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 334.6 MBytes/sec | 682.7 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1940 Frames/sec | 7650 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 19.9B Matrices/sec | 33.2B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 15.2 PPW | 24.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 209.4 PPW | 267.3 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 446.1 PPW | 636.8 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 3.08 PPW | 6.27 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Recent User Tests
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2025-12-28 (Nicholas) | Cinebench 2024 | 92 / 795 |
| π 2024-12-29 (Remembered2U) | Cinebench 2024 | 107 / 987 |
| π 2024-11-03 (Anish) | Cinebench 2024 | 103 / 886 |
| π 2024-10-01 (Guest #3) | Cinebench 2024 | 108 / 1088 |
Apple M2 Ultra
No benchmark results yet
Specifications
Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and Apple M2 UltraGeneral
| Vendor | Intel | Apple |
| Released | December 14, 2023 | May 5, 2023 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Meteor Lake | Apple M2 |
| Model number | 185H | - |
| Integrated GPU | Arc Graphics (8-Cores) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| Rival Equivalent | - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS | - |
| Successor | - Intel Core Ultra 9 288V | - Apple M4 Ultra |
Intel CPU rating (#83rd place)
CPU
| P-Cores | 6 | 16 |
| P-Threads | 12 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 2.3 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 5.1 GHz | - |
| E-Cores | 10 | 8 |
| E-Threads | 10 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 1.8 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | 3.8 GHz | - |
| Total Cores | 16 | 24 |
| Total Threads | 22 | 24 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 23x | 35x |
| L1 Cache | 112K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 2MB (per core) | 64MB (shared) |
| L3 Cache | 24MB (shared) | - |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | - | 134 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 35-65 W (configurable) | 80 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 115 W | - |
| Socket | FCBGA-2049 | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 110Β°C | 100Β°C |
Laptop processors ranking (103rd and 24th place)
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Arc Graphics (8-Cores) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2350 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | - |
| TMUs | 64 | - |
| ROPs | 32 | - |
| Execution Units | 128 | - |
| TGP | 28 W | - |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-7467 - LPDDR5x-7467 - DDR5-5600 |
- LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 96 GB | 192 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 819.2 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| Official Site | Intel Core Ultra 9 185H official page | - |
| PCI Express Version | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 28 | - |
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