Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Gaming Performance: There Are Serious Problems

One thing's for sure - the CPU demands on today's games are extreme in many cases. The days of mainstream processors routinely delivering well over 60FPS on every title are over. We need more performance - but unfortunately, we aren't getting it with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. In fact, in some cases, it's slower than a 12900K... or worse. Will Judd provided the numbers here and delivered our web review, but it's down to Rich to share the bad news in video form.

The Digital Foundry at Eurogamer review has more benchmarks, power efficiency, memory scaling and extreme mode testing. We did the work, but it doesn't change our opinion on the product: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoun...

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00:00 Introduction: Why We Need More CPU Performance
01:29 Core Ultra 9 285K: Productivity is Great, Gaming Performance Isn't
02:40 DF's Take On Automated Benchmarking
04:12 Cyberpunk 2077 Bugged? A Performance Collapse
05:27 Starfield Benchmarks
06:28 Dragon's Dogma 2 Benchmarks
07:06 Baldur's Gate 3 Benchmarks
07:33 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarks
08:42 F1 2024 Benchmarks
09:48 Forza Horizon 5
10:09 Conclusions + More Testing
11:31 Goodbye For Now