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Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX Crushes Core i9-14900HX In Cinebench R23 Multi-Core, While Losing Out in Single-Core
The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX was unveiled by Big Blue at CES 2025, packing 8 Lion Cove performance cores and 16 Skymont efficiency cores for a total of 24 cores and 24 threads, thanks to Intel doing away with Hyper-Threading support. As such, we already had quite low expectations for multicore performance from Arrow Lake-HX, although a recently listed Cinebench R23 run appears to confirm the contrary. However, considering the nature of leaks, be sure to accept this information with a fair amount of skepticism until more information comes our way.
To be honest, this result is quite a doozy, for the aforementioned reason. Like its predecessor, the Core Ultra 9 275HX will also boast the same number of performance and efficiency cores, without Hyper-Threading support. But somehow, the result indicates that the 275HX handily outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in multicore performance by a whopping 18%, despite losing out in single-core performance by the skin of its teeth. Clearly, something is going on here, that I am unable to wrap my head around. It is possible that Intel has massively improved multicore scaling, but that is not what we witnessed with a recent Passmark result, where the Core Ultra 7 255H portrayed healthy improvements over its predecessor in single-core, but not quite so in multicore.
Sources:
@94G8LA, Notebookcheck
To be honest, this result is quite a doozy, for the aforementioned reason. Like its predecessor, the Core Ultra 9 275HX will also boast the same number of performance and efficiency cores, without Hyper-Threading support. But somehow, the result indicates that the 275HX handily outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in multicore performance by a whopping 18%, despite losing out in single-core performance by the skin of its teeth. Clearly, something is going on here, that I am unable to wrap my head around. It is possible that Intel has massively improved multicore scaling, but that is not what we witnessed with a recent Passmark result, where the Core Ultra 7 255H portrayed healthy improvements over its predecessor in single-core, but not quite so in multicore.
16 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX Crushes Core i9-14900HX In Cinebench R23 Multi-Core, While Losing Out in Single-Core
Regarding the removal of HT, is Intel using the "rentable units' tech with these ?
Note: In HPC world a difference greater than 5% is considered as a good improvement. On a Big Data set it will reduce processing time.
GGforever says 18%
Vya Domus says 12%
ScaLibBDP says 10%
Does anyone want to show math for 5%? 25%?
The result depends on what number is used as a base to compare with another number. So two possible cases:
...31,854 is lower than 35,481...
or
...35,481 is greater than 31,854...
Both results are Valid!
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[ ScaLibBDP ] Calculate for how many percent 31,854 is lower than 35,481
[ Copilot ]
To find how much percent 31,854 is lower than 35,481, you can use the following formula:
Percent Lower=DifferenceOriginal Number×100\text{Percent Lower} = \frac{ \text{Difference} }{ \text{Original Number} } \times 100
Let's plug in the values:
\text{Difference} = 35,481 - 31,854 = 3,627 $$ $$ \text{Original Number} = 35,481
Now, use the formula to calculate the percent lower:
Percent Lower=3,62735,481×100≈10.22%\text{Percent Lower} = \frac{3,627}{35,481} \times 100 \approx 10.22\%
So, 31,854 is approximately 10.22% lower than 35,481
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[ ScaLibBDP ] Calculate for how many percent 35,481 is greater than 31,854
[ Copilot ]
To find how much percent 35,481 is greater than 31,854, you can use the following formula:
Percent Greater=DifferenceOriginal Number×100\text{Percent Greater} = \frac{ \text{Difference} }{ \text{Original Number} } \times 100
Let's plug in the values:
\text{Difference} = 35,481 - 31,854 = 3,627 $$ $$ \text{Original Number} = 31,854
Now, use the formula to calculate the percent greater:
Percent Greater=3,62731,854×100≈11.39%\text{Percent Greater} = \frac{3,627}{31,854} \times 100 \approx 11.39\%
So, 35,481 is approximately 11.39% greater than 31,854
Those 10% we're not even sure of because both Intel CPUs can scale from 45W to 160W, so unless both CPUs run at the same power limits with similar cooling it's not a useful comparison for laptop chips.
ThrottleStop is great btw, I use it to disable bd_prochot on my MBP (dead battery, lol).. can't help the igpu though...