Intel Core Ultra 9 285 “Arrow Lake 65W” CPU Spotted: 24 Cores, 24 Threads, Up To 5.6 GHz Clocks

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285 "Arrow Lake" CPU has been spotted, confirming the 65W variant of the flagship configuration with 24 cores.

Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU Is a 65W Arrow Lake Design With Flagship 24 Cores & 24 Threads & High Clock Speeds

Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" CPUs will launch with the K-series first which will include a total of five new chips but the company will also offer 65W and 35W CPUs in early 2025 which will be accompanied by the more mainstream 800-series chipset motherboard such as the B860, and H810.

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We have already reported specs for the lineup in previous articles but we now have the first look at the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU which has appeared within Geekbench 6. The CPU was tested on the ASUS PRIME Z890-P motherboard which features the LGA 1851 socket and is designed to support a full range of Arrow Lake Desktop offerings.

In terms of specifications, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU retains the same core configuration as the Core Ultra 9 285K with 24 cores based on an 8 P-Core (Lion Cove) and 16 E-Core (Skymont) design & offers 24 threads. The chip comes packed with 36 MB of L3 cache and has a base clock of 2.5 GHz & can boost up to 5.6 GHz. The chip being a 65W (PL1) design should offer a PL2 rating of around 200 Watts and was tested with just 8 GB of DDR5-5600 memory. It looks like the system was used only for boot purposes.

This could explain the lower performance with a single-core score of 3081 which is decent but a multi-core score of 14,150 points which is lower than the 17-18K range of the Core i9-14900 Non-K CPUs. We should expect the performance to be slightly lower than the Core Ultra 9 285K since the chip has conservative power ratings but even then, it should be a major improvement compared to the scores here.

With that said, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K will be