Intel Core Ultra 9 285 65 W CPU outperforms the 125 W Core i9-14900K according to recent Geekbench listing

With its Arrow Lake-S lineup of desktop CPUs, Intel has self-admittedly taken an efficiency-first approach with its latest batch of consumer silicon. This decision, paired with the notable absence of hyper-threading support was bound to stir the pot, and it most certainly has. That being said, recent benchmarks have indicated that the Arrow Lake-S members may pack more muscle than previously expected.

A recent Geekbench listing concerning the yet-to-be-launched 65 W Core Ultra 9 285 CPU appears to paint a promising picture, portraying quite a respectable performance jump over Intel's 14th-Gen desktop lineup in both the single-core and multi-core departments. For those who need a refresher, the Core Ultra 9 285 is a 24-core, 24-thread CPU with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores based on the 'Lion Cove' and 'Skymont' architectures respectively.

The Arrow Lake-S chip managed to rake 3,247 points in single-core and a respectable 20,204 points in multi-core. This represents a roughly 10% faster multi-core and single-core score when compared to its predecessor, the Core i9-14900. Impressively, the 65 W Core Ultra 9 285 managed to surpass the 125 W Core i9-14900K as well, albeit by an extremely small margin. The Geekbench listing reveals that the processor was paired with DDR5-5600 memory, which likely indicates that the Core Ultra 9 285 might be capable of even higher scores when paired with faster memory.

The Arrow Lake-S lineup comprising of the 'K' and 'KF' SKUs will become officially available on the 24th of October. The exact launch timeframe of the non-K lineup is shrouded in mystery at this point, but it would be fair to expect it sometime early next year.

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