Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Gaming Performance: There Are Serious Problems

One thing's for sure - the CPU demands on today's games are extreme in many cases. The days of mainstream processors routinely delivering well over 60FPS on every title are over. We need more performance - but unfortunately, we aren't getting it with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. In fact, in some cases, it's slower than a 12900K... or worse. Will Judd provided the numbers here and delivered our web review, but it's down to Rich to share the bad news in video form.

00:00 Introduction: Why We Need More CPU Performance
01:29 Core Ultra 9 285K: Productivity is Great, Gaming Performance Isn't
02:40 DF's Take On Automated Benchmarking
04:12 Cyberpunk 2077 Bugged? A Performance Collapse
05:27 Starfield Benchmarks
06:28 Dragon's Dogma 2 Benchmarks
07:06 Baldur's Gate 3 Benchmarks
07:33 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarks
08:42 F1 2024 Benchmarks
09:48 Forza Horizon 5
10:09 Conclusions + More Testing
11:31 Goodbye For Now

[krazyfrog]

Intel must have either messed up or did something amazing for Richard to make a CPU video after all this time.

[D-OS_II_Fan]

Rich, I really appreciate the larger text overlay. Thank you.

[leonthesleepy]

Rich is about to explode in bespoke anger. In 120fps.

[BatteryBee]

The new automated benchmark tools look impressive. Would definitely like to see a dedicated video on them.

[CYBRK]

Rich sounds like he wants to kick my ass lol

[lordcustard-smythe-smith]

Just shows what a massive engineering achievement the 7800x3d is for gaming considering how little power it uses.

[kurtwinter]

5800X3D continues to be the only good purchase I made in the past few years.

[TheIndulgers]

Zen +5%
Ultra -2.85%

Intel out here turning AMD Ls into Ws.

[chrissoucy]

Wow, its been a long time since you guys have done a proper CPU review.

[nightowl]

If gaming is your focus, you're still in good shape even with a 5700X3D.

[FakeSky]

no music for this one. understandably so

[CBrown]

After that crashing debacle, which left me with a paperweight, Intel couldn't give me another CPU. I'm more than happy with my 7800X3D.

[itsuadman]

Those benchmarks are great! Im glad youre spending more time on the actual interesting parts and not having to tediously run those benchmarks yourself. Thanks for the video, Richard

[mad_mario_]

Thanks for your great contribution as always DF team <3

[cashman]

Waiting for 9900X3D. Intel f'ed it up...again.

[CaptainVKanth]

Rich to Intel, "How dare you?"

[kunanon]

Rich's Max Verstappen fan confirmed

[TerraWare]

Intel made a big mistake with this launch. These CPU's are clearly not ready for market sale. They're essentially stacking negative reviews for a product line that could turn out to be good some day after updates and tweaks.

[alexadelaide]

This supports the research I have done showing the number 285 is indeed smaller than 14, 900

[krazykoolz]

hey DF i'm glad yall doing detailed CPU reviews now, keep it up!