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.
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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
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