Intel Arrow Lake: New CPUs are probably about to be released

Intel Arrow Lake is just around the corner, but initial benchmark leaks were less enthusiastic.

The release of Intel’s Arrow Lake processors is probably just around the corner. As the Videocardz portal reports, it should be on October 10, 2024 the unveiling of the Core Ultra 200 series take place.

Three days beforehand, the press and influencers will be provided with initial details in a short information meeting and will have the opportunity to find out more in a question-and-answer session.

The actual launch and the removal of the review embargo should be on October 24, 2024 take place. It remains to be seen whether all fourteen CPUs in the Arrow Lake series will actually be available for sale at the same time on this date. By the way, you can find the current rumored technical data here:

Core Ultra 9 285: The first benchmarks on Geekbench don’t bode well for Intel

Aside from the rumors about the imminent release, there are already initial indications about Arrow Lake’s performance.

A Core Ultra 9 285 was spotted on the Geekbench portal, where the results of the synthetic benchmark of the same name are uploaded – i.e. the non-overclockable version of the planned flagship model in Arrow Lake.

The CPU was probably tested on an Asus Prime Z890-P as a mainboard and in conjunction with 8 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM.

The result: With 14,150 points in the multi-core test and 3,081 points in the single-core test, the Core Ultra 9 285 is well behind the current figures from AMD’s competition. The recently released Ryzen 7 9700X, for example, is doing much better with 19,381 and 3,624 points respectively.

These numbers seem rather disappointing, especially given that Arrow Lake has to compete with AMD for two generations.

Is the leak realistic? The discrepancy seems less surprising given the specified base clock of the efficiency cores in the Core Ultra 9 285, which is stated as just 2.5 GHz in the Geekbench entry. This clock rate can also be found in the aforementioned leak of the technical data for Arrow Lake.

However, it is questionable why the test was carried out here with only eight GB of DDR5 RAM. Although Geekbench 6 is not considered to be too RAM-hungry compared to other benchmarks, at least modern PC systems have been relying on more RAM for a long time, so the reliability of the tests is only limited to a limited extent. However, the Geekbench leak should definitely serve as a clue.