Intel's latest refresh barely justifies its existence despite claiming the multi-thread performance crown. Early Geekbench data for the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus suggests the flagship chip delivers near double-digit gains in multithreaded workloads. That mild boost stems from increasing clock speeds up to 5.80 GHz while retaining the identical twenty-four core configuration seen in Arrow Lake processors.
Blue team loyalists get some bragging rights because this silicon apparently beats the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in heavy computation. Benchmarks display an eleven percent gap in multi-core results against the top AMD rival, alongside a tiny single-core advantage. Gamers should probably temper excitement, though, since pure frequency bumps rarely overthrow the gaming superiority of 3D V-Cache.
Someone tested the unit using a high-end Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE board with massive amounts of fast DDR5 memory. This launch seems like one last push to clear motherboard stock before Nova Lake forces a total platform upgrade. More details on the remaining SKUs will likely surface as the release approaches.
Blue team loyalists get some bragging rights because this silicon apparently beats the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in heavy computation. Benchmarks display an eleven percent gap in multi-core results against the top AMD rival, alongside a tiny single-core advantage. Gamers should probably temper excitement, though, since pure frequency bumps rarely overthrow the gaming superiority of 3D V-Cache.
Someone tested the unit using a high-end Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE board with massive amounts of fast DDR5 memory. This launch seems like one last push to clear motherboard stock before Nova Lake forces a total platform upgrade. More details on the remaining SKUs will likely surface as the release approaches.
