Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H "Arrow Lake" CPU has been tested, featuring strong single & multicore uplifts over the Meteor Lake chips.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285H "Arrow Lake" CPU Up To 28% Faster Than Core Ultra 9 185H "Meteor Lake"
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.
Geekbench 6.3.0 CPU MT Test (Higher is Better)
Geekbench 6.3.0 CPU ST Test (Higher is Better)
Compared to the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H does lag a bit behind in the single-core performance but offers faster multi-threaded performance. With final optimizations & silicon in place, we can expect better scores, but Geekbench is just one benchmark. Plus, we don't really know what exact TDP the chip was running on which should play a crucial role in determining its efficiency gains. The Core Ultra 9 285H along with the Arrow Lake-H and HX family are expected to debut at CES 2025, so stay tuned for more information.
News Source: Benchleaks
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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