Intel is getting closer to releasing the first desktop Core Ultra processors, also known as Arrow Lake-S. The chipmaker has already started producing qualification samples of the CPU, which have been sent to partners for further testing. The results of testing the new Arrow Lake-S samples were not long in coming.
Benchmarks for the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 9 desktop processor, or Core Ultra 9 275 or Core Ultra 9 285K, have become publicly available. Qualification (QS) and engineering (ES2) samples of Arrow Lake-S were tested in 250-watt mode, which allows us to evaluate the progress made in the transition from the ES2 to the QS version of the processor.
The qualification CPU is close in characteristics to the final version of the Core Ultra 9 and in some tests it outperforms the current Core i9-14900K. For example, in the Cinebench R23 benchmark it scores about 17.5% more points. It is also worth noting that the new product operates with 24 cores (8P + 16E) without Hyper-Threading support, while the Core i9-14900K has a typical 24-core/32-thread configuration.
On the other hand, the future flagship of the AMD AM5 platform, Ryzen 9 9950X, demonstrates an even better result. The engineering version of this processor in 230-watt mode passes Cinebench R23 with a score of over 46 thousand points.
You can compare the new products from Intel and AMD face to face this fall. The first Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake-S) CPUs and LGA1851 motherboards should go on sale in October. AMD, meanwhile, plans to launch sales of Ryzen 9000-series chips next month.
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