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Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Arrow Lake-H fixes Meteor Lake's shortcomings with Lion Cove P-cores and a big multi-core jump, making it Intel's best all-round H-series chip in years.
Pros
- Large single- and multi-core gains over Core Ultra 185H
- 16 cores at laptop-friendly power levels
- Arc 140T iGPU with XeSS support
- Fast LPDDR5X-8400 memory support
- Better efficiency than Raptor Lake-H
Cons
- No Hyper-Threading
- 13 TOPS NPU misses Copilot+ certification
- iGPU slower than Radeon 890M
- Can pull up to 115W in performance mode
Good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
General
- Announced
- 2025
- Process
- 3 nm
- Base TDP
- 45 W
- Max TDP
- 115 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 16
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 10
- Threads
- 16
- Base clock
- 2.9 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.4 GHz
- L3 cache
- 24 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Arc 140T
- iGPU clock
- 2,350 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8400 / DDR5-6400
- Max memory
- 128 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 3,080Top 17%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 17,900Top 15%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,180Top 10%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 24,200Top 13%
- PassMark
- 34,203Top 20%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 3,719Top 7%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H earns an Inno Score of 66.4/100 (“Good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Arrow Lake-H fixes Meteor Lake's shortcomings with Lion Cove P-cores and a big multi-core jump, making it Intel's best all-round H-series chip in years.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 34,203 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier A of our CPU tier checker: current Core i7 H / Core Ultra 7 / Ryzen 7 class and above. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H?
Cores: 16 · Threads: 16 · Boost clock: 5.4 GHz · Base TDP: 45 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core Ultra 9 386H, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-80-100 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
