Thin Performance Laptop Segment — 21 Processors Compared

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Thin Performance Laptop Segment: which one for what?

The 21 models on this page are scored only against each other, for the use you pick. Scores come from the spec sheets; no price and no advertising go in.

What will you use it for? Gaming Content Creation On-device AI Battery Life

Leads for Gaming: Intel Core Ultra 9 285H86%

Leads for Content Creation: Intel Core Ultra 9 285H76%

Leads for On-device AI: AMD Ryzen AI 9 46578%

Leads for Battery Life: Intel Core Ultra 9 285H62%

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Intel Core Ultra X7 368HIntel
16 · 16 · 5 GHz
77% 61% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285HIntel
16 · 16 · 5.4 GHz
86% 76% 55% 62%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 5.4 GHz boost
- 24 MB L3 cache
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 16 cores / 16 threads
- 5.4 GHz boost
Why it ranks here
- 13 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Battery Life
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Intel Core Ultra 5 338HIntel
12 · 12 · 4.7 GHz
73% 55% 58% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 47 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra 5 336HIntel
12 · 12 · 4.6 GHz
60% 55% 58% 60%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 47 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra 7 356HIntel
16 · 16 · 4.7 GHz
62% 60% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra 9 386HIntel
16 · 16 · 4.9 GHz
64% 61% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra 7 366HIntel
16 · 16 · 4.8 GHz
63% 60% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra X9 378HIntel
16 · 16 · 5 GHz
77% 61% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra X7 358HIntel
16 · 16 · 4.8 GHz
75% 60% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core Ultra X9 388HIntel
16 · 16 · 5.1 GHz
79% 62% 74% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 5.1 GHz boost
Why it ranks here
- 16 cores / 16 threads
- 5.1 GHz boost
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
- 25 W — among the frugal ones here
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Intel Core i7-1360PIntel
12 · 16 · 5 GHz
64% 69% 51% 56%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
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Intel Core Ultra 5 125HIntel
14 · 18 · 4.5 GHz
59% 73% 52% 56%
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 11 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 465AMD
10 · 20 · 5 GHz
74% 67% 78% 61%
Why it ranks here
- 24 MB L3 cache
- Current model — 9 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 9 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 50 TOPS NPU
- Current model — 9 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 9 months on the market
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AMD Ryzen 5 150AMD
6 · 12 · 4.55 GHz
74% 55% 55% 55%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Current model — 12 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 12 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 12 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 12 months on the market
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Intel Core Ultra 7 255HIntel
16 · 16 · 5.1 GHz
72% 75% 67% 56%
Why it ranks here
- 5.1 GHz boost
- 24 MB L3 cache
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 16 cores / 16 threads
- 5.1 GHz boost
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: On-device AI
- 13 TOPS NPU
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
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Intel Core 5 210HIntel
8 · 12 · 4.8 GHz
66% 47% 45% 45%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 24 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 24 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 24 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 24 months on the market — a successor may be near
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AMD Ryzen 9 8945HSAMD
8 · 16 · 5.2 GHz
72% 62% 51% 45%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 5.2 GHz boost
- 33 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 5.2 GHz boost
- 33 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 16 TOPS NPU
- 33 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 33 months on the market — a successor may be near
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Intel Core Ultra 5 135HIntel
14 · 18 · 4.6 GHz
67% 68% 47% 51%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 34 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 34 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 11 TOPS NPU
- 34 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 34 months on the market — a successor may be near
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AMD Ryzen 7 7840HSAMD
8 · 16 · 5.1 GHz
71% 62% 45% 49%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 5.1 GHz boost
- 36 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 5.1 GHz boost
- 36 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 36 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 36 months on the market — a successor may be near
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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HSAMD
8 · 16 · 5.2 GHz
72% 62% 45% 49%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 5.2 GHz boost
- 41 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 5.2 GHz boost
- 41 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 41 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 41 months on the market — a successor may be near
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Intel Core i9-13900HIntel
14 · 20 · 5.4 GHz
69% 74% 47% 45%
Why it ranks here
- 5.4 GHz boost
- 24 MB L3 cache
- 45 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 5.4 GHz boost
- 45 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 45 months on the market — a successor may be near
Why it ranks here
- 45 months on the market — a successor may be near