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• Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Review
  
  
• Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Review
  
  
• Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Review

Intel Core Ultra 200S in the test: Core Ultra 9 285K, 7 265K & 5 245K disappoint efficiently

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Delivers Strong Linux Performance

When taking the geometric mean of nearly 400 benchmarks tested across these processors, the Core Ultra 9 285K was 12% faster than the Core i9 14900K overall. Or about 14% faster when switching to DDR5-8000 memory. This put the Core Ultra 9 285K right inline with the performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X prior generation process overall or around 95% the performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X or 84% the speed of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for this wide mix of workloads tested under Linux.

The generational Raptor Lake to Arrow Lake performance is more impressive when factoring in power use. The Core Ultra 9 285K on average was at around 136 Watts during the entire span of workloads tested, right inline with the average of 137 Watts on the Ryzen 9 9950X and much lower than the 156 Watt average with the Core i9 14900K. The Core Ultra 9 285K did have a peak recorded power use at 248 Watts, above the 201 Watts found with the Ryzen 9 9950X but at least much lower than the 347 Watt peak with the i9-14900K. The power efficiency improvements with Arrow Lake are real.