It looks as though there are already a few samples of Arrow Lake CPUs in the hands of tech leakers right now, as a series of Intel Core Ultra 9 285K benchmarks have seemingly just been leaked. The leaked Intel Arrow Lake benchmark results are better than those from any CPU you can buy now, but it looks as though Intel is going to have a hard time beating AMD in the forthcoming CPU battle.
Both Intel and AMD will be competing to make the best gaming CPU in 2024, but AMD has a head start, with the Ryzen 9000 release date fast approaching. Intel’s competing Arrow Lake CPUs aren’t expected to come out until at least October 2024, and if that’s what happens, it looks as though Intel is going to have a serious fight on its hands.
This benchmark data comes from serial Intel tech leaker Jaykihn, who put up a series of test results in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Jaykihn claims to have results from two samples – an engineering sample (ES), like the one featured in the Intel Arrow Lake CPU-Z screenshot leaked earlier, and a qualification sample (QS), which will be much closer to the final silicon.
Further down the thread on X, Jaykihn says the models tested are “8+16, so 285K equivalent,” meaning eight P-Cores and 16 E-Cores. The 285K is rumored to be the name of the flagship Intel Arrow Lake CPU when it’s launched, with its full name being the Core Ultra 9 285K. All the tests were reportedly conducted with the CPU running at 250W, and we’ve listed them in the table below:
Rumored Intel Arrow Lake benchmarks
| Arrow Lake QS | Arrow Lake ES | |
| Cinebench R23 MT | 43,118 | 34,975 |
| Geekbench 5.4.5 MC | 27,381 | 22,076 |
| Geekbench 5.4.5 SC | 2,455 | 2,001 |
| Speedometer 2.1 Chrome v114 | 472 | 385 |
| WebXPRT4 3.73 Chrome v114 | 372 | 304 |
| CrossMark | 2,587 | 2,145 |
The one that particularly stands out to us, though, is the Cinebench R23 result, as this really shows the CPU’s multi-threaded power when all its cores are in use, and we use it on our own CPU reviews as well. In this test, the QS sample gets a score of 43,118. On the surface, this looks like a great result, being significantly quicker than the 38,422 we got from the Ryzen 9 7950X, and the 39,328 result we got from the Core i9 14900K.
However, there’s potentially a big problem on the horizon, which is that Ryzen 9 9950X benchmark leaks from ivor_kavinski on the Anandtech forums show that AMD’s chip scores 44,782 in this test at just 200W, and 46,090 when running at 230W. Open this CPU’s power taps up completely and it will even hit 48,011, though the power draw for this performance is reportedly 309W.
Of course, neither of these CPUs has been released yet, and this is all based on rumor right now, but if these results are genuinely representative, AMD is looking set to win this CPU race in terms of multi-threaded power. Another caveat here is that the Intel results are based on a qualification sample for a CPU that doesn’t even have a release date yet, whereas the AMD results come from a finished chip that’s launching in July 2024.
If you want to know more about what’s coming with Intel and AMD’s new CPUs, read our full AMD Zen 5 guide, as well as our Intel Arrow Lake guide, where we share everything we know so far.