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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 84444, member: 27"]
Intel leaked a monstrous mobile processor online, and the performance gains look surprisingly legitimate. A PassMark entry details the unannounced Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus running inside an MSI machine equipped with an RTX 5090 and Samsung DDR5-5600 memory. While the corporation skipped mentioning this Arrow Lake Refresh silicon at CES 2026, the data confirms validation testing is happening ahead of a rumored spring release.

Synthetic benchmarks reveal the chip hit 66,203 points for multi-core and 5,009 points in single-thread metrics. Those figures place the component well above the Core Ultra 9 285HX, beating the predecessor by roughly 12.8% and 7.5%, respectively. If retail laptops match this output, enthusiasts are looking at a serious generational leap rather than a minor bump.

The results become even crazier when stacked against the desktop-class Core Ultra 9 285K. This laptop CPU falls within 2% of the desktop part in multi-core tasks, which seems insane considering the thermal limitations involved. However, power limits and vendor-specific tuning often inflate early numbers.

Specs suggest the core count stays at 8P + 16E, implying that clock speed tweaks or microcode updates caused the boost. Faster RAM could theoretically squeeze out more frames, but we need the final hardware to verify everything.
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