Intel Core Ultra 9 285K overclocked to 7.5GHz smashes a bunch of records – and of course AI was involved (it had to be, right?)

Intel’s caller Arrow Lake desktop processors (Core Ultra 200S range) are conscionable out, and inevitably that intends overclockers are already pushing nan flagship to its limits, which frankincense acold has resulted successful an overclock of 7.5GHz for nan Core Ultra 9 285K.

This was achieved by well-known overclocker Elmor arsenic Asus explains successful a blog post, pinch nan Core Ultra 9 CPU sitting successful an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Elmor – and a squad moving connected nan project, comprised of 3D Systems, Diabatix, ElmorLabs, and SkatterBencher (another celebrated overclocker) – deed 7488.8MHz, to beryllium precise, utilizing liquid helium cooling. By default, nan Core Ultra 9 285K boosts to 5.7GHz (clocks, and powerfulness usage, are tamer pinch Arrow Lake than its predecessors).

Asus besides highlights that nan LN2 cookware – which is virtually a pot, nan instrumentality utilized for nan LN aliases liquid nitrogen (or helium) state to cool nan CPU being ramped up to ridiculous speeds – was designed utilizing generative AI tech from Diabatix.

So, successful a mini way, AI helped to supply optimum cooling present successful position of nan instrumentality design, aliases alternatively nan expertise to research a bunch of creation alternatives successful a swift manner.

Asus notes: “The output of nan generative AI process was dissimilar thing other connected nan marketplace and required nan cutting-edge 3D printing tech of 3D Systems to bring to life, but nan results speak for themselves.”

Running astatine this speed, nan 285K managed to group a clutch of caller world records – 4 of them, each successful 3DMark CPU – on pinch 19 world first spot records (and 31 first places successful various benchmarks, successful total). A bully woody of those were different Cinebench and Geekbench results arsenic you mightiness imagine.

Separately, Wccftech besides points retired that overclocker BenchMarc managed to ramp up their DDR5 RAM to an unthinkable velocity of 12066MT/s successful nan Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Analysis: Impressive worldly – but it’s improbable to thief nationalist perception

Arrow Lake desktop chips person had a lukewarm reception, truthful Intel will apt return immoderate triumph it tin – and nan Core Ultra 9 285K does do very good erstwhile it comes to nan world of utmost overclocking.

The evident problem being that this niche position of capacity is intelligibly not applicable to nan real-world – though it is astatine slightest a hint that PC enthusiasts whitethorn get much mileage retired of nan 285K than others, via much accepted overclocking. (Depending connected really overmuch headroom location is to push harder pinch nan chip, mind).

In fairness to Team Blue, Arrow Lake isn’t terrible, and surely for app performance, nan caller CPUs do good enough. They do not, however, correspond overmuch of a compelling upgrade complete Raptor Lake aliases its refresh, contempt ratio gains, and nan gaming broadside of nan equation is shoddy, frankly. (The 14900K is overmuch stronger for gaming – and nan 285K is simply a spot each complete nan spot successful general, pinch immoderate overseas benchmark results successful evidence).

Those gaming oddities are perchance wrinkles that’ll beryllium ironed retired pinch updates from Intel, but this shouldn’t beryllium happening pinch CPUs astatine motorboat (just clasp them – and get it right, please, disconnected nan bat).

Still, we can’t reason pinch nan overclocking results here, and arsenic ever, we tin expect nan Core Ultra 9 285K to beryllium pushed faster successful nan future, and doubtless break much heavyweight benchmarking records.

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