Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Review

👤by Tim Harmer  Comments 📅24-10-24

Test Setup & Testing

For the purpose of testing the ULTRA 9 285K we used the ASRock Z890 TAICHI since it is placed as a high-end motherboard, this should give us the capabilities of showing the true potential of this chip.

Note that Intel i9 and i7 results are not reflective of the 0x129 microcode update. AMD 9000-series results taken prior to Windows 24H2 update.

CPU being tested

Intel Core ULTRA 9 285K

TEST SETUP

Cooling CORSAIR H150i ELITE LCD
Motherboard ASRock Z890 TAICHI
Memory 64GB CORSAIR Dominator Platinum RGB 5200MHz DDR5
Graphics ZOTAC RTX 3070 Ti HOLO Extreme
Storage CORSAIR Force LX 512GB SSD
PSU Corsair RM 1000 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Monitor AOC U2879VF

BENCHMARKS

Cinebench R23 – Single/Multi-core CPU Rendering
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU Ray Tracing
TrueCrypt – CPU Encryption Read/Write
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMARK 10 – CPU Productivity
Davinci Resolve – Puget Benchmark
Blender – Classroom Benchmark
Games – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey & Total War: WARHAMMER II