One of the main reasons why we may want to get a processor is because of the performance it offers when managing the various applications we use on a daily basis, and a large number of users are looking for the best performance instead of focusing on achieving a middle ground in terms of quality-price. This is where the TOP processors of each company would come in, both from Intel as from AMD, and this time the most powerful processor of the Arrow Lake would significantly outperform AMD’s best.
Intel has never had any problems when it comes to offering great power in any type of benchmark, and one of the company’s specialties is creating processors that stand out for the performance they offer thanks to the large number of combined cores they use. This time, they have once again managed to get the top-of-the-range processor that this generation will have to surpass AMD’s most powerful, as well as its own CPU that previously held the record for the highest score in multi-core in Geekbench 6, the i9-14900KS.
Intel wants to return to the top of performance with its new Arrow Lake processors
It’s quite common that when we see the launch of a CPU we think about what advantages it offers over previous generations, and it’s clear that Arrow Lake is one of the architectures that will change the most with respect to those we have seen so far. The main reason is, as we well know, the implementation of the new Skymont efficiency cores, which according to Intel offer up to 50% more performance compared to those of the 14th generation of the brand’s processors, improving the overall power of the processor when combined with the new Lion Cove.
This has apparently given the results that the company wanted, and a series of tests have appeared in Geekbench 6 that demonstrate the score that is achieved to reach the Core Ultra 9 285K both in single-core and multi-core tests, offering a very high score. In fact, we can say that it is the highest score that a processor aimed at the general public has managed to achieve, since it competes directly with the Ryzen 9 9950X that AMD launched recently and which is currently the most powerful one offered by the company.
In terms of a single core, we can see that the score offered by Intel’s new processor is 3420 points compared to the 3359 offered by its main competitor, surpassing the performance offered by the Ryzen 9 by 61 points. On the other hand, when we look at the multi-core score we see the substantial improvement represented by the new implementations that the company has carried out, since it manages to reach 23376 points compared to the 21890 offered by the i9-14900KS, considerably surpassing the 20550 of the Ryzen 9 9950X.
Although we already know that Intel’s weakness is not in this type of test, since its processors always manage to achieve extremely high scores, but the problem is that they have lost the trust of users after seeing all the setbacks that their latest generations have suffered, as well as other types of factors that are not always taken into account, such as the use that is given to each processor.