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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Core Ultra 9 285K retail samples benchmarked in CPU-Z and Blender — thermal throttling and limited clock speeds spoil the fun

Core Ultra 200S CPU.

Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 285K, the flagship of the Core Ultra 200S lineup, has been spotted in CPU-Z (via momomo_us) and Blender (via HXL). The initial performance is somewhat disappointing; however, that may be attributed to the test bench used and the operating conditions, at least in CPU-Z.

Ironically, CPU-Z indicates that this CPU is manufactured using a "7nm" process. However, in reality, the Compute Tile uses TSMC's N3B (3nm) node. Anyhow, here, the 285K is clocked at 5.5 GHz and 4.6 GHz across all P-cores and E-cores, respectively. The validation statistics show that the CPU is running at 100 degrees Celsius, so do not take this benchmark as an indication of the final performance.

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