Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
Core Ultra 200S
Intel's Arrow Lake flagship: 24 cores (8 performance, 16 efficient, no Hyper-Threading) that render and compile with the 16-core Ryzens but trail AMD's X3D chips in games, and in Tom's Hardware's tests even the older Core i9-14900K. The cheaper Core Ultra 7 270K Plus beats it in every test we cite. Needs a Z890 board and a 360 mm cooler.
Against the line-up
Geekbench 6 CPU
Geekbench 6 CPU
Cinebench 2024
Counter-Strike 2
Cyberpunk 2077
Blender Benchmark
The whole Processors line-up side by side, with prices
Every benchmark
Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.
Cyberpunk 2077
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High |
156fps | Gamers Nexus, Aug 17, 2026 GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, DDR5-6000 CL30 Phantom Liberty test scene; GN CPU mega chart |
| 1080p Ultra |
111fps | Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026 GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition |
Counter-Strike 2
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p Ultra |
627fps | Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026 GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition |
Blender Benchmark
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
562samples/min | Blender Open Data, Oct 19, 2026 Median of 279 user CPU results, Blender 4.5.0 |
Geekbench 6 CPU
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core |
25,837points | Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026 Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026 |
| Single-core |
2,832points | Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026 Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026 |
Cinebench 2024
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core |
2,313points | Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026 |
Sources
- Blender Open Data (results database)
- Gamers Nexus (review)
- Geekbench Browser (results database)
- Tom's Hardware (review)
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