Less power, less powerful, more potential?

This feels like a rebuilding year for Intel.

  • but we’ve also tested video production and 3D modelling workloads alongside some basic power analysis.

an msi meg z890 ace motherboard with intel core ultra 9 285k slotted in, looking cool and zoomed in

Before we get into our results, let’s briefly cover off the spread of the field.

Core isolation was enabled throughout.

We’ll start with the results of our content creation benchmarks.

Core Ultra Series 2 hero image

Adopting the “MSI Unlimited” power profile raises these results slightly.

Now let’s get into the soy protein of our testing, the gaming benchmarks.

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 5 245K analysis

an asus rog strix z890-f gaming wifi motherboard showing its top

an asus rog strix z890-f gaming wifi motherboard showing its I/O

an msi meg z890 ace motherboard with a focus on the easy-open nvme slot

an msi meg z890 ace motherboard’s io

a tangled twist of wires purporting to be a “intel core 285k test rig” based around the msi meg z890 ace motherboard