Saturday, February 8th 2025

Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX Defeats 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 ~11%, despite losing out in single-core performance by the skin of its teeth. Of course, there are plenty of desktop-replacement laptops that can pull off higher multicore scores, although it would be best to stick to median figures considering that the details of the tested system are not known. 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 ~11%, despite losing out in single-core performance by the skin of its teeth. Of course, there are plenty of desktop-replacement laptops that can pull off higher multicore scores, although it would be best to stick to median figures considering that the details of the tested system are not known. 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.
63 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX Defeats Core i9-14900HX In Cinebench R23 Multi-Core, While Losing Out in Single-Core
The median value is good to compare with the median value, which we do not know, and we also do not know in what part of the spectrum both samples tested by them are. Therefore, here is a little fantasy on your part. We need to compare either the values in the picture and there is no talk of any 18% for them, or wait for reviews and a large-scale release for median values. Otherwise, this smells like clickbait
From post #20;
Saying this because I 100% expect the single-core score to improve (considering previous leaks).
-It wasn’t supposed to exist was meant to be a stop gap for MTL.
- It spend an additional year being a stop gap
- Suffered from being a scrambled together arch with degradation.
- The new arch are now suffering from the comparisons because RPL was still a fast cpu despite being a last minute release. ADL> MTL>ARL was the original plan. But Intel took too long to swallow their pride and go external
35481 / 31854 = 1.11386325
11.39%
www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/9000-series/amd-ryzen-9-9955hx.html Gosh... it's not that complicated. No need for AI tool... There are two ways of comparing two things, point of view 1 and 2 for products A and B
Example: Apples are $2. Bananas are $3.
1. Bananas are 50% more expensive than Apples - math 3/2=1.5; Bananas' price is 1.5 times higher than Apples' price, therefore 50% more expensive
2. Apples are 33% cheaper than Bananas - math 2/3=0.67; Apples' price is 67% of the Bananas' price, therefore it's 33% cheaper (67%+33%=100%)
Numbers depend on comparison reference point:
- from the point of view of 275HX/Banana (faster/pricier), it will appear with higher percentage number in performance/price gain in comparison to something slower/cheaper that has '100%' value
- from the point of view of 14900HX/Apples, it will appear with lower percentage number in missing performance/price in comparison to something faster/pricier that is now a new '100%' value
Therefore, this benchmark:
1. 275HX is 11.3% faster than 14900HX (here, 'the 100%' sits with old 14900HX)
2. 14900HX is 10.2% slower than 275HX (here, 'the 100%' sits with new 275HX)
Hence difference in percentage numbers. It depends on which item is a reference point of '100%'. This.
It's neither 18% nor it's 'whopping'. Tame the language of the narrative, please, to keep high standards of tech reporting.
Also, we need to see the power usage and scaling, as Arrow Lake HX has higher turbo of 160W than Raptor Lake-R. That's not good for starters.
Arrow Lake HX was supposed to fix the snappiness of CPU at lower power usage. I really hope they were able to achieve this.
- there is a good reason why Intel does not name their Arrow Lake i9 CPUs with number 9 this generation.
- classic i9 should have '9' in processor number. There are no 290K/295K or 290/295
- likewise, mobility CPUs adopt the same, without number 9 in the names; they have i9 275HX and 285HX, but not 295HX You cannot do this in a published article without making explicit reference in the text as to where 18% is coming from. It's misleading because readers can easily check and divide the two scores on the screenshot 35,481 with 31,854 to get 11.3% and not 18%. Please correct this.
Also, deriving 18% by dividing one single score of 275HX from one test laptop with median score of many 14900HX from many laptops from Notebookcheck is a really bad extrapolation. You don't even mention this in the article. Why? If you want to compare a single test score with median score, then you need to publish the screenshot of those median scores as a main part of the article and say something about it.
The only fair solution is to correct the face value number and edit to 11.3%. If you already want to play the game predictions and still mention 18%, on the top of 11.3%, then you need to mention this in the narrative, as stated above.
To keep in spirit with the math in the thread, you are overestimating the gains by 70%
We don't know if the same power target is kept, what if the extra 11% is from increased TDP???
Also what @Tek-Check is saying, if you want to show a 18% difference, show the numbers that make the difference
All I see is 11% in that screenshot from the reviewer/leaker
That's why we should never calculate percentages from one single sample with a median from another, as it gives us distorted, false picture, detached from specific devices. I had several really good teachers who transformed my life. Sorry if you did not have one.
We know that ARL-H/X will bring only a modest SC improvement over 14HX. The fact that this sample underperforms clearly indicates it's not a high-end variant.
Take the Scar 16 - a fairly standard gaming laptop with the 14900HX. It pulls around 30K points in R23. Could it do more? Sure, but so can the 275HX.
I still believe it's best to compare a fresh benchmark against the previous generation’s median value, simply because we don't know the exact configuration in question. These leaks should always be taken with a grain of salt, and our performance "leak" articles consistently include similar disclaimers.
I remember people rendering stuff on desktops that make this generation of laptops seem like a server farm