Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17532 points
18% slightly better overall score
14832 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15815 points
5% slightly better gaming score
14976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18156 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
14778 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18414 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
14762 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

515.66 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
406.07 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
20% slightly more cores
20

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

24
Identical
24

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB
Identical
256 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

40 MiB
11% slightly more L2 cache
36 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
20% slightly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

5th of 1,089
25th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-6400
DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

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