More evidence is mounting about clock speeds for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs, and it looks as though the company is taking a much more conservative approach to megahertz with its forthcoming desktop processors. According to the latest leak, the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K boost clock is significantly lower than that of its current two flagship 14th gen CPUs, which are currently struggling with stability problems in a number of games.
While the Core i9 14900K is Intel’s best gaming CPU when it comes to raw multi-threaded performance, it runs at a sky high turbo boost clock speed of 6GHz, which not only makes it run hot, but also requires a lot of power to ensure it regularly hits that frequency. Reports of game crashes on Intel CPUs from this generation are also widespread. With its latest top-end chip, however, Intel is seemingly happy to run it at a lower clock speed, even when it’s boosting.
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