Intel Core Ultra 5 245K, a budget CPU, leaves more expensive chips behind in new multi-core benchmark score leaks

There was many leaks around the Intel Core Lunar Lake series and its capabilities, but a new CPU-Z benchmark result for the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processor has leaked and they’re pretty impressive so far.

According to a popular Chinese hardware leaker ECSM_OfficialThe Intel Core Ultra 5 245K achieved 850.6 points in single-core performance and a multi-core score of 10,907.1 points. This puts the Core Ultra 5 245K between the 842 points of the Intel Core i9-13980HX and the 852 points of the Intel Core i5-14600K/KF in terms of single-core performance, or about 99.8% of the performance of the Raptor Lake Refresh chip.

The processor shines in multi-core tests, however, as it beats the 14600K/KF’s multi-core score of 9,868 by about 10.5%, making it 90% of the performance of the higher-end Intel Core i7-14700K, which scored 12,117. The 245K also doesn’t have hyperthreading, so it’s even more impressive that its 14 threads deliver similar performance to 20- and 28-thread chips.

Although Arrow Lake is in its final stages, there are still many optimizations and changes that can be made before the processors roll off the production line. Not to mention, performance drops can always be outliers due to the incredibly small sample size, so take these results with a grain of salt until the product hits the market and is fully tested.

Is hyperthreading really that great?

According to IntelHyperthreading was dropped to improve the efficiency of the Arrow Lake chips. According to the leaked benchmark results, this was the ideal decision. The 245K has a maximum power of 159 watts, compared to the 14600K’s 181 watts, and yet the former came close to matching the latter in the single-core test and surpassed it in the multi-core test.

Leaker ECSM_Official also noted that the tested 245K processor was not fully optimized and has a frequency 100-200 MHz lower than the standard. If this is true, it is clear that the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K will most likely achieve even better benchmark results after its official launch.

Hyperthreading is the name of Intel’s technology that allows more than one thread to run on each core of a CPU, meaning more work can be done in parallel (AMD and ARM also have similar technology). The idea is that a PC with hyperthreading enabled can process more information in less time and run more background tasks without interruption.

However, the fact that removing hyperthreading from the latest Arrow Lake chips can increase processor performance so dramatically raises questions about how useful the technology really is. Most likely, the effort required to implement the technology essentially negates any benefits from it.

It will be interesting to see Arrow Lake at full capacity once it is released and see if Intel will reconsider including hyperthreading in its future processors.

topicnews · September 18, 2024

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K, a budget CPU, leaves more expensive chips behind in new multi-core benchmark score leaks

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