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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)
- 2,878Top 20%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 15,940Top 18%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,133Top 8%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 20,882Top 17%
- PassMark
- 34,203Top 18%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 4,418Top 10%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 3,719Top 9%
Devices with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
12 devices in our catalog use this chip
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H earns an Inno Score of 63.9/100 (“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–Oct 8, 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.
Which devices use the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H?
12 devices in our catalog use the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H: Lenovo ThinkPad T1g Gen 8, ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025) GU605, Lenovo Xiaoxin Pro 16 GT 2025, HONOR MagicBook Pro 14 (2025), MSI SummitPro 16 AI A2HV, and more.
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 AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, Intel Core i9-13900HX, Intel Core i9-13950HX — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
