People aren’t going to be happy with a 0% gaming performance increase
Updated: Oct 10, 2024 11:08 am
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Intel Core Ultra 285K performance slides leak and shows slower performance than the 14900K in gaming workloads.
With Intel’s Core Ultra series being announced today, negative benchmark leaks are probably the last thing it needs. The Core Ultra 285K has been spotted on internal slides comparing it to the 14900K, and the results don’t seem as promising as you might hope – but there is a silver lining.
Core Ultra 9 285K performance leasks
Hardware leaker @wxnod, who has a history of access to internal information, has posted the following slides on X:
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Regardless of the actual results, this is an integrity move from Intel. Where companies like to inflate their own numbers or test in favorable conditions, Intel has reported on the loss – though not publicly just yet. This is a good move, one that should, hopefully, bring back some of the community trust following the self-immolating 13th and 14th-gen CPUs (now been fixed).
What does this mean for Intel?
Let’s dig into the data on these slides, the overall takeaway is the 285K is much more efficient than the 14900K, using just 477W on average compared to 527 of the 14900k. With that said, performance is technically worse, but it’s within the margin of error. We’d be happy to say the performance is the same.
On the slide that compares the 285K to the 7950X3D, the Arrow Lake CPU lags 21% behind in Cyberpunk 2077. However, in Rainbow Six: Siege, the 285K edges ahead by 15%. You have to bear in mind, that this is only gaming performance, the 285K has previously set records with its benchmarking performance, and that may have been a mere sample.
There’s not long to wait for the Arrow Lake CPUs to be announced, so we’ll likely know more in the coming hours. Although these slides appear real and honest, you always have to take them with a pinch of salt, especially if they are leaks. Intel has made a lot of bold decisions with Arrow Lake, one of which is ditching Hyperthreading. We’ll just have to wait until we get a hold of them to see what the story is.
