While the AMD chip managed 4,739 points in the same benchmark, the M3 notched up 4,777 points.

The Intel’s flagship score also handily beat the 4,869 points achieved by the Intel Core i9-14900K.

Despite the impressive single-threaded performance, the Core Ultra 9 285K’s multi-threaded results leave much to be desired.

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake CPU crowned single-thread performance leader in PassMark

The lack of hyper-threading has also helped boost performance by allowing for more efficient single-thread execution.

Ironically, the absence of hyper-threading is also a key factor behind its underwhelming multi-threaded performance.

It will include 36MB of L3 cache and have a 125W PL1 TDP.