The high-performance Arrow Lake-HX looks promising. While the desktop Arrow Lake SKUs failed to achieve stronger performance uplifts, we are witnessing the mobile HX SKUs dominating their predecessors in synthetic benchmarks.
Core Ultra 5 235HX Tested in PassMark For the First Time; Boasts Even Faster Single Core Performance Than Core i9 14900HX
Intel's Arrow Lake-HX family is an enthusiast-grade series for high-performance premium laptops. Despite featuring no hyper-threading, the Arrow Lake-HX is reportedly doing much better in both multi-threaded and single-threaded tests. One of the early benchmarks for one of the budget SKUs in the lineup reveals Arrow Lake-HX capabilities in synthetic tests, and unlike the desktop variants, we are witnessing some great results.
This is the first time we are seeing the Core Ultra 5 235HX processor in PassMark, benchmarked twice. The CPU is a 14-core CPU with turbo clock of up to 4.5 GHz/ 5.1 GHz (E-Core/P-Core) and boasts the same base TDP of 55W as its predecessor, the Core i5 14500HX. However, the turbo power can reach 160W, which is slightly higher. The latter, however, has hyper-threading enabled, despite which, the Ultra 5 235HX was able to outperform 14500HX by a whopping 38% margin in multi-threaded tests.
Core Ultra 5 235HX delivered 4,708 points in single core and 40,122 points in multi-core tests, which are roughly 30% and 38% higher than scores achieved by the Core i5 14500HX. The generational uplifts not only look solid when compared to its direct predecessor but also show how close the 235HX is to the higher-end Raptor Lake-HX CPUs. Compared to the Core i7 14700HX, which is a 20-core and 28-thread processor, the 235HX managed to bring around 18% higher single-core and 7% higher multi-core scores.
It even manages to surpass the Core i9 14900HX by around 11% margin in single-core performance and is just 11% slower in multi-threaded prowess. It's interesting to see that the Core Ultra 5 235HX managed to outperform the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 9 9955HX3D in single-core performance as well. The difference isn't very large, but a 6% gap is still noticeable.
The Core Ultra 5 235HX is now on par with the flagship SKUs like Core Ultra 9 275HX in single-core, but keep in mind that we aren't talking about gaming performance, which depends on multiple factors, and AMD's 9000 series X3D chips are still much superior. Nonetheless, the raw performance of Core Ultra 200HX looks promising, and it can be an excellent chip for productivity on mobile platforms.
News Source: @x86deadandblack
