Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake-S Review: $589 CPU sacrifices gaming crown to match AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 in power efficiency

[Redaktion]

Intel's new Arrow Lake-S Core Ultra 9 285 introduces a new compute tile layout that sacrifices hyperthreading and aims to win over enthusiasts with significant efficiency improvements. While the Core Ultra 9 285K does indeed deliver on raw CPU performance and efficiency, it loses badly to Intel Raptor Lake-S Refresh and AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 offerings in gaming.

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[PHVM_BR]

Why test with memories at 6000MHz below the platform's JEDEC?

This significantly impacts performance in several applications...

[Vaidyanathan]

Why test with memories at 6000MHz below the platform's JEDEC?

This significantly impacts performance in several applications...

The higher memory speeds are for CUDIMMs. The kit used here is a conventional DDR5 UDIMM for which the officially supported JEDEC spec is DDR5-5600. So the 6000 XMP still allows for Gear 2, which is perfectly suitable for these chips.

[al ex]

You should watch the gamers nexus review.
It's pretty good and efficiency is sadly still far behind AMD, but it's getting there.
Sadly it looks like it's just "let's downclock the old chip and save a few watts".

Performance in games is down across the board, power is down "more" but not enough.

After the last 5 years or more of "sucking the wall dry", it's a welcome change but sadly it's a disaster.

These chips are through and through not competitive.

Lunar lake looks promising tho

[Stickitinben]

This is a major improvement. It's a rendering beast from the middle east. Gaming performance isn't that far behind as long as you have a 4070 or 6800xt you will not notice one bit of difference in 1440p gaming. 60% more multi-core performance with less threads? That's a huge improvement.

[reuben]

Core 2 also removed HT btw so it's not a first since P4