The Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU is the subject of the latest Arrow Lake leak, and seeing this processor on Geekbench gives us some alleged specifications and an idea of the potential performance on offer, with one caveat.
The Geekbench 6 result was marked at X by BenchLeaks, with the Core Ultra 9 285 running on an Asus Prime Z890-P motherboard (with LGA 1851, the new socket for Arrow Lake processors).
[GB6 CPU] Unknown CPUCPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 285 (24C 24T)Min/Max/Avg: 5461/5579/5560 MHzCodename: Arrow LakeCPUID: C0662 (Original Intel)Single: 3081Multi: 14150https://t.co/zPyFYuKEoHSeptember 30, 2024
What the leak tells us is (add the usual salt) that the Core Ultra 9 285 is a 24-core (24-thread) CPU and this is the TDP (thermal design power) variation of 65W. (Unlike the Core Ultra 9 285K, which is the unlocked 24-core processor that can be overclocked, with a TDP of 125W for PL1).
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285 will have the same core configuration as its K counterpart, i.e. 8 performance cores along with 16 efficiency cores. The chip has 36 MB of L3 cache, with a base clock speed of 2.5 GHz and a maximum boost speed of 5.6 GHz. In Geekbench 6 testing, the chip was paired with 8 GB of DDR5 memory. 5600, that is, DDR5 system RAM with a speed of 5600 MHz.
Scoring anomaly
Achieving a single-core Geekbench score of 3,081 isn't bad at all. However, the Core Ultra 9 285 stumbles with its multi-core result of 14,150. As Wccftech, which spotted the tweet above, points out, that falls short compared to the vanilla Core i9-14900 (current non-K flagship), which hits between 17,000 and 18,000 for multi-core.
So something is clearly wrong here, as the plain 285 won't be that far off the pace of the unlocked 285K version; We hope more benchmark tests will prove this. Note that non-K Arrow Lake CPUs, including the Core Ultra 9 285, won't launch until Q1 2025, so they're not as close to shipping as the K versions (but they're also not a million miles away).
As we previously reported, we may see Intel's first Arrow Lake CPUs, which will be the K models led by the 285K, as early as October 2024.
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