Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

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Overview

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is Intel’s Arrow Lake-S (Core Ultra 200S) desktop processor with 24 cores, a boost clock of 5.7 GHz and 36 MB of L3 cache. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a processor holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.

Specifications

Cores

24

Physical cores. More helps sustained multi-threaded work, not single-task responsiveness.

Threads

24

Base clock

3.7 GHz

The floor the vendor guarantees under load. Often closer to reality than boost.

Boost clock

5.7 GHz

A ceiling, not a promise. How long a chip holds it is the thing a spec sheet cannot tell you.

L3 cache

36 MB

TDP

125 W

Design power, not measured draw. Where a range is shown, the manufacturer allows the laptop maker to choose within it, and the choice materially changes sustained performance.

Socket

FCLGA1851

Process

3 nm

Integrated graphics

Intel Graphics (4 Xe-cores, 2.0 GHz)

Launched

2024-10-24