24-core Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 CPU shines in leaked Cinebench R23 Single-Core benchmark
Following his reveal of the Cinebench R23 Multi-Core performance of a 24-core Arrow Lake-HX mobile CPU, Moore’s Law Is Dead now alleges the single-core performance of an Arrow Lake CPU. The Core Ultra 200-series chip under question seems like the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K since it packs 24 cores. We know from recent leaks that Intel is only going to offer one 24-core ARL-S chip, the Core Ultra 9 285K, with the remaining four being the 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K and 14-core Core Ultra 5 245K SKUs.
Arrow Lake single-core performance
According to MLID’s latest information, the 24-core Arrow Lake CPU scores around 2,000 points in the Cinebench R23 Single-Core. On the surface, this score seems quite low for Arrow Lake. However, the chip was boosting to only 4.5 GHz, which is much lower than the 5.7 GHz reported boost frequency for the Core Ultra 9 285K.
As pointed out by MLID, if we take the Cinebench R23 score at 4.5 GHz and extrapolate it to 5.7 GHz, we end up with around 2,533 points, putting the chip ahead of both the 14th-gen and AMD Zen 5 processors.
Arrow Lake vs Ryzen 9000 and Intel 14th-gen
Per our database, the Intel Core i9-14900K achieves a max Cinebench R23 Single-Core score of 2,351, making the 24-core Arrow Lake CPU 8% faster with its score of 2,533. Similarly, the Core Ultra 200K chip under question is 12% ahead of Ryzen 9 9950X, as the latter boasts a Cinebench R23 Single-Core score of 2,262.
To explain this expected performance gain enjoyed by the ARL chip, MLID suggests that Arrow Lake is projected to have a 12-15% advantage in single-threaded tasks vs its predecessor. The information came to MLID via two of his sources.
Intel’s performance projections for Arrow Lake
The leaked Arrow Lake Cinbench R23 ST score seems to be in line with the numbers shared by MLID’s sources. One source who is allegedly an “Intel partner” told the leaker that Intel projects a 12%+ single-threaded uplift vs Raptor Lake. However, the source doesn’t think that the gain will translate one-to-one to gaming. The second source who works at Intel claimed an even higher figure of 13-15%+.
However, first-party performance projections tend to overstate the capabilities of their chips. So, as we’ve learned with the launch and subsequent reviews of Zen 5, take these projections as non-final and likely to be a little off.
Source(s)
Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube, cpu-monkey, Teaser image: Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash, Intel, edited
