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Performance and Testing: CPU Tests
Test Systems:
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake
Motherboard: MSI MEG Z890 Ace
Memory: 48GB G.Skill Trident Z5 CK CUDIMM DDR5-8200
CPU: Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X
Memory: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DR5-6800
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9000
Motherboard: MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi
Memory: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DR5-6000
Common components:
Graphics Card: MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24GB
Storage: 1TB Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD
CPU Cooler: MSI MAG CoreLiquid I360 AIO
Power Supply: Seasonic Vertex ATX 3.0 GX-1200 Gold
Operating System: Windows 11 24H2
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
In Geekbench 6 Multi Core we start with a win for Core Ultra 9 285K which is closely followed by Core Ultra 7 265K. Moving half way down the chart we find Core Ultra 5 245K which beats Core i5-14600K by a reasonable margin.
Geekbench 6 Single Core
In Geekbench 6 Single Core the results are dominated by AMD Ryzen with the three Intel Core Ultra 200S models sitting in the middle of the chart.
CPU Clock Speeds and Power Draw
When we stress test the CPUs in Cinebench 2024 we see that Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 7 265K use ten percent less power than Core i9-14900K and Core i7-14700K while running at slightly higher clock speeds. Core Ultra 5 245K uses considerably less power but in general we see that AMD Zen 5 runs on less power than Intel.
AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth
One interesting quirk of Core Ultra 200S is support for DDR5 CU-DIMMs which include a control chip on the module that allows higher memory clock speeds. On paper this gives the new CPUs an unfair advantage as we were able to test them with DDR5-8200 where Intel 14th Gen used DDR5-6800 and AMD had DDR5-6000 memory. You can see how that plays out in the AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth test, but despite this clear advantage things are going to get weird in our gaming tests.
