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Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Meteor Lake's flagship rebuilt the Intel laptop chip around tiles: 16 cores, a genuinely fast Arc iGPU, and Intel's first NPU. The catch is CPU throughput that barely clears the i7-13700H it nominally replaced.
Pros
- Arc iGPU roughly doubles Iris Xe gaming performance
- 16 cores with a power-sipping LP-E island
- Intel's first H-series NPU for on-device AI
- Strong burst responsiveness
Cons
- Multi-core barely ahead of the i7-13700H
- Single-core regressed from Raptor Lake peaks
- NPU falls short of Copilot+ requirements
- Needs 45W-plus to stretch its legs
Average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
General
- Announced
- 2024
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 45 W
- Max TDP
- 115 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 16
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 10
- Threads
- 22
- Base clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.1 GHz
- L3 cache
- 24 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Arc Graphics (8 Xe)
- iGPU clock
- 2,350 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-7467 / DDR5-5600
- Max memory
- 96 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,430Bottom 47%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 13,400Top 35%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,790Top 40%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 17,300Top 26%
- PassMark
- 28,947Top 24%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 3,225Top 14%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H earns an Inno Score of 57.3/100 (“Average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Meteor Lake's flagship rebuilt the Intel laptop chip around tiles: 16 cores, a genuinely fast Arc iGPU, and Intel's first NPU. The catch is CPU throughput that barely clears the i7-13700H it nominally replaced.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 28,947 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier A of our CPU tier checker: current Core i7 H / Core Ultra 7 / Ryzen 7 class and above. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H?
Cores: 16 · Threads: 22 · Boost clock: 5.1 GHz · Base TDP: 45 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 7 8840U, Intel Core Ultra 7 256V, Intel Core Ultra 7 258V — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
