Intel Core Ultra 9 285 leak reveals specs of Arrow Lake’s tamed flagship CPU – and its potential performance levels

Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285 CPU is the subject of the latest Arrow Lake leak, and a sighting of this processor in Geekbench gives us some alleged specs and a glimpse of the potential performance on offer – with one caveat.

The Geekbank 6 The result was reported on 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).

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 65W TDP (thermal design power) variant. (Unlike the Core Ultra 9 285K, 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, meaning 8 performance cores in addition to 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 the Geekbench 6 test, the chip was paired with 8 GB of DDR5-5600 memory, which means DDR5 system RAM with a speed of 5600 MHz.

Anomaly in scoring

Getting a score of 3,081 in Geekbench for single-core isn’t bad at all. However, the Core Ultra 9 285 does stumble with its multi-core result of 14,150. If Wccftechwho noted the above tweet points out that this falls short compared to the vanilla Core i9-14900 (current non-K flagship), which scores around 17,000 to 18,000 for multi-core.

So there’s clearly something wrong here, as the regular 285 won’t be that far off the pace of the 285K unlocked version – we expect further benchmarks will show that. Note that the non-K Arrow Lake CPUs, including the Core Ultra 9 285, won’t hit the market until the first quarter of 2025, so they won’t be as close to shipping as the K versions (but they are not a million miles away either).

As we previously reported, we could see Intel’s first Arrow Lake CPUs, the K models spearheaded by the 285K, as early as October 2024.

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