Four New Arrow Lake Desktop SKUs Leaked on Bapco, Revealing Performance and Specifications
Intel’s upcoming batch of non-K and F desktop CPUs have leaked on Bapco, a website that offers a quick comparison between CPUs. As you may already know, Intel is going to reveal more Arrow Lake CPUs for both desktop and laptop at CES 2025 and some of the chips have started to appear in various leaks in a few days.
This time we have the actual benchmarks of the non-K and F desktop SKUs in the Core Ultra Series 2, which were tested in the “CrossMark Desktop” application. Here is the list of the latest leaked CPUs along with their Overall scores as revealed on Bapco:
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285: 2332
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265: 2308
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265F: 2030
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225F: 1957
Comparing these scores against the already existing Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, we find that these are quite slower than their non-K parts. Do remember that CrossMark isn’t very accurate at times but the performance gap should be noticeable between the K and non-K variants.
The Core Ultra 9 285 comes out to be much slower than the 285K and even slower than the Core Ultra 7 265K/265KF and Core Ultra 5 245K. The difference between the 285 and 285K is roughly 28%, which even though seems too high, doesn’t tell the whole picture. The Core Ultra 9 285 will have the same core/thread count as the 285K but with lower clocks. In synthetic benchmarks, the gap shouldn’t be such high, particularly in multi-threaded workloads.
In the CrossMark test, the 285 comes out to be even slower than the Core Ultra 5 245K, which is a 14-core CPU. Similarly, the Core Ultra 7 265 and Core Ultra 7 265F are significantly slower than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Nonetheless, keeping the performance numbers aside, we see that Intel has prepared quite a number of desktop CPUs for the second batch, and these won’t be the only ones as we yesterday saw the Core Ultra 3 205 leaked, featuring an 8-core configuration and there will be more variants such as Core Ultra 5 235, Core Ultra 5 245, and some T-variants for ultra-low-power consumption.
We can also see the Core Ultra 9 285H in the CrossMark test, scoring 2003 points. The Core Ultra 9 285H will be a 16-core chip in the Arrow Lake-H family, which has an excellent iGPU that outperformed the Arc 140V recently.
