Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU-Z and Blender benchmarks underwhelm, but questions remain

The large picture: Intel's Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200K desktop CPUs statesman shipping adjacent week, and third-party benchmark results person started appearing. Intel's unveiling earlier this period tempered expectations regarding capacity gains compared to 14th-gen Raptor Lake and AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 9000. Although results successful nan chaotic aren't shocking, a afloat image has yet to emerge.

The flagship of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop lineup has made its benchmarking debut connected nan CPU-Z and Blender databases. Although a afloat study must hold until reviews from TechSpot and different sites go available, this early sneak peek aligns pinch nan ambiance from Intel's announcement position from earlier this month.

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K posted a single-thread CPU-Z people of 909 erstwhile clocked astatine 5.4GHz and 889 astatine 5.3GHz. The higher people falls somewhat beneath nan processor's nonstop predecessor, nan Core i9-14900K. Meanwhile, nan little people besides struggles against nan older 13900K.

Memory is apt 1 of nan main factors dragging nan results down. Intel suggested a guidelines representation velocity of DDR5-6400 and a saccharine spot of DDR5-8000 for Arrow Lake. However, nan CPU-Z benchmark units utilized 5600 and 4800 RAM successful dual 16GB configurations.

Thermal throttling is besides apparent, arsenic nan CPU reached 101 degrees Celsius successful nan 909-score test. Meanwhile, nan multi-thread scores of 18,964 and 18,099 put nan 285K soundly supra nan competition, supporting Intel's claims of a hefty multi-threaded capacity boost.

The Blender results offer little information but show a notable ranking betwixt caller flagship user processors. A media people of 566.88 puts nan 285K good up of nan 14900K but acold beneath AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X. Another Arrow Lake chip, nan Core Ultra 7 265K, besides appears here. Its 471.21 people edging conscionable supra nan Ryzen 9 9900X.

When Intel unveiled nan desktop Arrow Lake chips, nan institution ne'er promised azygous capacity gains complete Raptor Lake aliases AMD Zen 5. The caller generation's existent uplifts are supposedly successful powerfulness ratio and productivity. Time will show if nan claims carnivore retired successful our afloat review, but carrying value tags akin to Raptor Lake surely won't help.

Intel's Arrow Lake processors commencement shipping connected October 24, starting astatine $294 for nan Core Ultra 5 245KF. The 285K will unit for $589. The institution besides confirmed that Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200H and 200HX will travel to high-end laptops successful early 2025.