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Intel's leaked 28-core Nova Lake CPU beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X3D in single-thread testing

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Highly anticipated: What appears to be another leak of Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop processors has hit the internet. A PassMark benchmark lists results for a 28-core chip, and its single-thread score is higher than that of the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

A VideoCardz reader found the entries through PerformanceTest 11.1's Manage Baselines feature. Listed as "Intel 0000," the processors appear in submissions dating back to September.

The fastest 28-core result reaches 5,210 points in the single-thread test, with another scoring 5,191. For comparison, the individual baselines selected by VideoCardz scored 5,059 for the Core Ultra 9 285K, 4,805 for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and 4,635 for the Core i9-14900KF. That gives the Nova Lake-S sample leads of around 3%, 8.4%, and 12.4%, respectively. The publication selected comparison systems...

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