Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H "Arrow Lake" CPU has been tested, featuring strong single & multicore uplifts over the Meteor Lake chips.
The first benchmarks of Intel's flagship Core Ultra 9 285H "Arrow Lake" CPU have been leaked at Geekbench. The new benchmarks show that laptop manufacturers are prepped for the CES 2025 debut of their next-gen products.
Talking about specs, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H is part of the Arrow Lake or Core Ultra Series 2 line. It features a total of 16 cores arranged in a 6 P-Core and 10 E-Core arrangement with 16 threads. It operates at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.4 GHz. The CPU offers a 24 MB pool of cache. The CPU is clocked higher than the Meteor Lake chip but at the same time, it has a lower number of threads (16 vs 22).
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H was tested on the Dell Pro Max 16 (MC16250) laptop with 64 GB DDR5-6400 memory. Given that this is an "H" series SKU, it should run with a TDP range of 35–45 Watts and up to 115W MTP. As for the GPU, the system should employ an RTX 40 GPU alongside Intel's upgraded Xe-LPG+ iGPU with later options supporting the NVIDIA RTX 50 series.
In terms of performance, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU scored 2665 points in the single-core and 15,330 points in the multicore tests. For comparison, the Core Ultra 9 185H scores 2241 & 11,948 points, respectively.