Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Breaks Past 5K Points To Become The Fastest Single-Threaded CPU At PassMark, 11% Faster Than 14900K

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K has set a record before its launch, achieving the fastest single-threaded CPU score at PassMark.

Intel's Arrow Lake Surprises With Top-Notch Single-Thread Performance As Core Ultra 9 285K Secures The Top Spot

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is the flagship CPU within the Arrow Lake "Core Ultra Series 2" lineup & while its debut is expected next week, it looks like PassMark is giving us a taste of what sort of CPU performance the chip is going to pack.

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PassMark just announced at X that the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU has shown up in the benchmark database and currently is the single-thread performance leader, topping the previous fastest chip, the Core i9-14900K. The software maker also states that this specific entry might be an engineering sample so we can expect better results as more samples are added to the database.

In terms of performance, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU scored 5268 points in the single-threaded test which is 8.2% faster than the Core i9-14900KS. Do note that the 285K will be able to boost up to 5.7 GHz while the 14900KS clocks up to 6.2 GHz (+8.7%). Compared to the Core i9-14900K & the Ryzen 9 9950X, the 285K leads by 11%.

Looking at the multi-threaded performance, the CPU scored 46,872 points which is much lower than the Core i9-14900K and Ryzen 9 9950X CPUs which scored 60,305 (+28.6%) & 66,702 (+42.3%) points, respectively.

Usually, a chip configured with lower power ratings can still yield good single-core performance but the multi-core performance gets affected the most and that might also be the case here since given how good the single-core performance is, the multi-core score doesn't add up. But we should remember that the Arrow Lake CPUs do not feature hyper-threading support like current generation offerings so it's 24 threads versus 32 threads on the Intel 14th gen and AMD Zen 5 offerings.

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 24 Core / 24