The first reliable performance tests that have been leaked indicate that both the Core Ultra 9 285K, Intel’s next high-end processor for the general consumer market, and the Ryzen 9 9950X, which will be its direct competitor from AMD in the said year. market, they will offer significant improvement compared to the previous generation.

These tests also gave us the opportunity to go up against the Core Ultra 9 285K and the Ryzen 9 9950X, and for now we have a clear winner, the Ryzen 9 9950X. In Cinebench R23, the Core Ultra 9 285K achieves a single thread score of 2,323 points, beating the Intel Core i9-13900K’s 2,255 points and the Ryzen 9 7950X’s 2,016 points.

It also beats both processors in multithreading with its 39,454 points, which is not far from the Ryzen 9 7950X. If we look at the results we have in Cinebench 2024, we see that the Core Ultra 9 285K achieves 2,461 points in multithreadingand the Ryzen 9 9950X achieves them 2,675 points. This leaves us with a narrow but clear victory in favor of the AMD processor.

It is very important that you keep in mind that these results achieved by the Core Ultra 9 285K in multithreading are without HyperThreading, a technology that has already been removed from Intel Lunar Lake and is likely to meet the same fate in Arrow Lake-S. This means that this processor will have a configuration of 8 P cores (Lion Cove) and 16 E cores (Skymont), which brings together 24 cores and 24 threads.

With that in mind, I think the multi-threaded scores are good, but I’m a bit surprised by the single-threaded results I’m seeing as they’re lower than I expected, especially after I found out through Intel that Lion Cove would theoretically improve 14% CPI compared to the previous generation. This, together with a possible increase in the maximum clock in turbo mode, should bring a more substantial difference in single-thread.

Low results may be due to the fact that they were obtained using relatively early technical samples, as these have not yet been properly optimized. We will have to wait for more reliable data and above all for the first analyzes carried out by independent media to find out what the new Arrow Lake-S and how they compare with AMD Zen 5 processors.

Alleged number.

Data 13900K / 7950X = QSZ and CGDirector
ARL number = based on jaykihn (3% ST / 15% MT)
9950X number = based on AMD Slide (+21% vs 149k in 2024) https://t.co/8JG5lHqJhh pic.twitter.com/Vipn28qEKi

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