Intel Core Ultra 5 225H, Core Ultra 7 255H and Core Ultra 9 285H CPU performance evaluation results are available on Geekbench

Three SKUs from Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake-H mobile lineup have been tested on Geekbench, revealing pretty impressive single-core and multi-core performance and specifications.

Each SKU belongs to a different segment, corresponding to the Core Ultra 5, Core Ultra 7, and Core Ultra 9 product lines. These processors are Arrow Lake chips, but unlike the high-performance Core Ultra 200HX series, they will compete directly with AMD's top-of-the-line Strix Point and Strix Halo CPUs.

First up is the Core Ultra 5 225H. This chip scored 2665 in the single-core test and 14526 in the multi-core Geekbench 6 test. For comparison, it's on par with the Core Ultra 5 225F desktop processor but 10% faster in the multi-threaded test. This is because the 225H has 4 more cores in total than the 225F, although these are mostly power-efficient cores.

The specs show two clusters of 4 Performance cores (P-cores), 10 Efficiency cores (E-cores), a base clock of 1.70GHz and a boost clock of 4.9GHz. The L3 cache is 18MB and according to recent leaks, the Core Ultra 5 225H will offer a P-core Turbo frequency of up to 5.0GHz and an E-core Turbo frequency of 4.3GHz. The iGPU will also be decent with 7 Xe-LPG cores running at 2.0GHz.

Next up is the Core Ultra 7 255H. This is a powerful mid-range chip that features 16 cores via a 6 Performance core + 10 Efficiency core configuration. The processor will have a base clock of 2.0GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.1GHz. Again, this is identical to the leaked specs and as such, it is likely that the chip will have 24MB of L3 cache and 8 Xe-LPG cores for the GPU clocked at 2.25GHz.

In terms of performance, the Core Ultra 7 255H is a bit slower than the desktop Core Ultra 7 265 (of course), and also slower in multi-threaded performance (single-thread: 2880, multi-thread: 15815). You should still take these numbers with a grain of salt, and Geekbench scores can vary significantly from test to test. However, the third SKU, the Core Ultra 9 285H, looks quite strong in both single-threaded and multi-threaded tests, scoring 3104 and 18006 points respectively.

Finally, the Core Ultra 9 285H is a 16-core processor, identical to the Core Ultra 7 255H, but with much higher clock speeds of 3.69GHz base and 5.4GHz P-Core boost. L3 cache remains the same at 24MB, and the 285H is rumored to offer Turbo E-core clocks of up to 4.5GHz and an 8-core Xe-based iGPU clocked at 235GHz. Unlike all the other SKUs in the Core Ultra 200H lineup, the Core Ultra 9 285H is the only chip rated at 45W, while the rest of the chips run at 28W.

Jessica Tanner

Update 31 December 2024