Intel processors have been involved in a series of problems due to high consumption, temperatures and voltage, generating instability. We are referring to the i9 Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs, that is, the Core 13 and 14. As we well know, these reach very high frequencies and have stability problems. Intel has been dealing with this, but for now the exact reason is not known and while everything is being figured out, it has just been revealed that the Core Ultra 9 285K which will arrive under the Arrow Lake architecture, will employ
5.5 GHz frequencies.
Intel and AMD have faced each other for several decades, to see which of the two manages to launch the best processors for PCs, laptops and servers. During a long season, Intel has been dominating his rival and has been able to allow himself to throw processors with minimal improvements, since he didn’t need anything else to win. However, since AMD launched CPUs with Zen architecture, Intel has had to work much harder.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K will have a frequency 0.7 GHz lower than the i9-14900KS
With each new generation of processors, we have seen how Intel increased the number of cores and/or frequencies. Currently, its latest and most powerful processor is the i9-14900KShas 24 cores and reaches a maximum frequency of 6.2GHz, almost nothing. We are already talking about numbers that exceed 6 GHz, when until recently we barely exceeded 5 GHz.
Raising the frequencies so much causes an inevitable increase in voltage, which in turn increases consumption and temperatures. Here we can see that Intel’s method of constantly raising the frequency is not going to work forever and it seems that it has decided to stop and do the opposite. This is because supposedly the Core Ultra 9 285K of Intel’s next generation of CPUs will be limited to a maximum of 5.5GHz.
Arrow Lake will not have Core Ultra 3 processors, they will start from the Ultra 5
If this holds true, it will mean that Intel’s next “i9” is 0.7 GHz slower in terms of maximum frequencies, a significant drop. Additionally, the Core Ultra 9 285K is expected to offer
24 cores and 24 threads (without hyper-threading), something that will impact performance. These will consist of 8 Lion Cove P-Cores and 16 Skymont E-Cores. With this reduced speed, Intel would be returning to the time of the Core 12, since its i9-12900K It has a maximum frequency of 5.5 GHz.
Seen this way, these new generation processors will have to offer a large increase in IPC and performance in general terms with the new Arrow Lake architecture, at least if they want to surpass CPUs like the i9-14900KS. Perhaps Intel has decided to lower the frequency so much due to the stability problems we have seen recently. Regarding these, we already saw that the fact of using a profile called Intel Baseline has not been entirely the solution, with cases like that of Linux that
has gotten worse in all aspects.
On the other hand, another news that has been leaked is that Arrow Lake will not have an “i3”. As mentioned by the leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, Arrow Lake will not have a range of Core Ultra 3 processors and therefore, the new generation CPUs will start from the Core Ultra 5.
