The first gaming benchmarks for Intel’s upcoming high-end Arrow Lake CPU, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, have been leaked online. These benchmarks come straight from Intel itself. So, let’s see whether this CPU is able to beat the latest AMD and Intel CPUs. At least based on Intel’s official slides.
According to the benchmarks, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K will mostly be on par with the Intel Core i9 14900K in terms of performance. In most games, this CPU will have a similar performance to the latest high-end Intel CPU model. Moreover, in some games, it will be slower than it, whereas in other titles, it should be a bit faster.
The key feature of the Intel Core 9 Ultra 285K, at least according to Intel, will be its efficiency. As Intel notes, this new CPU will draw less power than the Intel Core i9 14900K. This is good news as this was an area in which Intel lagged behind.
Intel has also compared the Intel Core 9 Ultra 285K with the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Similar to the i9 14900K, this new CPU will be mostly on par with AMD’s CPU. Now what’s interesting here is the decision to use the 7950X3D and not the 7800X3D for the gaming benchmarks.
As we’ve reported multiple times, some games can use the second CCD of the 7950X3D which can result in lower-than-anticipated performance. That’s why we’ve been disabling the second CCD in our benchmarks. However, I’m certain Intel did not do such a thing for its benchmarks. So yeah, I’m a bit cautious about these Ultra 285K vs 7950X3D benchmarks.
Anyway, Intel will officially reveal the Intel Core Ultra 200 series in a couple of days. From what I know, the review embargo for third-party benchmarks will be lifted on October 24th. As such, take these first leaked gaming benchmarks with a grain of salt.
Stay tuned for more!
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CPUs seem to be hitting a wall …… Moore's Law is truly dead
I expect much of the same with next gen GPUs
And they are no longer reliable.
Kinda sounds like how LLMs and chatbots "hallucinate" sometimes.
Not really, that's something completely different and many tiers of complexity hierarchy higher.
Why do you have to be so… You know what? I fart in your general direction.
Todays cpu's are basically overclocked out of the box… with all the drawbacks like stability. That's why most overclock so poorly when you want to stretch their legs further.
Wouldn't necessarily say Moore's Law is dead, as more, it's on hold.
Silicon reached its limits, years ago, and we've been seeing these marginal improvements for a while now, as they continue to try to squeeeze blood from a stone with silicon, by throwing loads more power at it, and risk instability.
Computing needs an evolution at this point. Either physical, or operational. Likely to be physical, when new materials can be used to get past the limitations.
Agree, we will no doubt see more elaborate designs with CCD like base blocks, way faster/lower latency interconnects (like all the upcoming photonic ones) and then we have the material as well. With that i just hope someday proper mulithreaded coding/optimizations will reach the codemonkey's at most of the so called game devs – If they could really get efficient coding done even a mid range cpu would be enough for years but alas…
Basically all this wait for a DOA product. Bet the sales will be amazing! not to mention the price cuts!
Yeah, my bet the former will only take place if the later happens – That is IF it don't come with burning ring bus, to weak wattage to run reliably or a few days later emergency microcode update that zaps plenty of the marketed performance.
Better to wait a year before buying anything. Too many CPU have undocumented issues.
Yeah, a few security patches later and you could be robbed of a lot of what you paid for
It will also not solve stuttering and bad cpu handling in many games.
I'm waiting for day to witness 1Tb L100 cache 90.00Thz CPUs and play Tekken 3 on it
Intel is going to need a few good years before a lot of people thrust them again. Not doing a recall of the affected CPUs is a total dck move, the mess is such I bet they don't even know exactly what batches are affected.
I'm waiting for day to witness 1Tb L100 cache 90.00Thz CPUs and play Tekken 3 on it
So they've made it into less of a fire hazard than its predecessor, but it seems to be very much still bashing its head against a performance ceiling…
Will be interesting to see the next generation after that, when graphene transistors still won't be there to save the day.
Lackluster improvements, same with ryzen 9000. Guess gotta wait 1 more year. But I kind of need to upgrade as my mobo can't handle any heavy games and randomly shut down. Ugh the worst time to have pc problems. All of ryzen 7000 series is getting expensive and intel cpus being powerhungry and unstable
Intel is no longer trustworthy.