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Rate My PC: Intel Core Ultra 9 285 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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Top 3% of systems. Capable of 4K Ultra gaming and advanced rendering.

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System Balance Analysis

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97%

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96%

PROCESSOR

Intel Core Ultra 9 285

75,488 Benchmark Score

Top 3% Market Ranking

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

54,209 Benchmark Score

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0-30

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30-60

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60-85

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85-100

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Performance Tiers Explained

90-100

Ultimate

4K Ultra gaming, VR ready, ray tracing enabled, professional workloads

4K 60+ FPS VR Ready

70-89

High-End

1440p Ultra or 4K High settings, excellent for modern AAA titles

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50-69

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1080p Ultra or 1440p Medium, great value for most gamers

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30-49

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1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

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0-29

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Basic gaming, older titles, consider upgrading for modern games

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The Intel Core Ultra 9 285 pairs a 24-core, 24-thread Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, a 16 GB Ada Lovelace GPU. The combination sits at the 91st combined percentile in the benchmark database, with the CPU at the 95th CPU percentile and the GPU at the 86th GPU percentile. That ranking makes the Core Ultra 9 285 the stronger half of the pairing, while the RTX 4080 SUPER remains a high-end card in aggregate benchmark terms.

CPU Analysis

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285 is a 24-core, 24-thread desktop processor from the Core Ultra Series 2 line. It is built on the Arrow Lake architecture, specifically the Arrow Lake-S codename, and manufactured by TSMC on a 3 nm process. The die contains 17,800 million transistors on a 243 mm² package. The base clock is 2.50 GHz and the boost clock reaches 5.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. Cache is arranged as 192 KB of L1 per core, 3 MB of L2 per core, and 36 MB of shared L3. Memory support is DDR5 over a dual-channel bus with 102.4 GB/s of bandwidth, and ECC memory is enabled. The CPU provides PCIe Gen 5 with 20 CPU lanes, includes Arc Xe-LPG Graphics with 64 execution units, and has a locked multiplier.

The benchmark results are strong across both single-thread and multi-thread workloads. Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 48,945, while single-core scores 6,909. Cinebench R20 shows 20,556 multi-core and 2,901 single-core. Cinebench R15 shows 4,933 multi-core and 696 single-core. Passmark multithread score is 56,602, and single-thread score is 4,881. The processor also posts 164,869 in Passmark integer math, 194,988 in floating-point math, 46,949 in data encryption, and 602,121 in data compression. These numbers point to a CPU that is comfortable in both lightly threaded responsiveness and heavily threaded productivity work.

The CPU’s average benchmark score is 75,488, which places it at the 95th percentile of all CPUs in the database. Its nearest rivals are extremely close. The AMD EPYC 8224P averages 75,582, putting the Core Ultra 9 285 0.1 percent behind. The AMD EPYC 4545P averages 75,373, putting the Intel part 0.2 percent ahead. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755X3D averages 75,716, and the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755 averages 75,738, with the Intel CPU 0.3 percent behind both. This is effectively a statistical tie among four high-end rivals. For real workloads, the Core Ultra 9 285 should deliver rendering and compilation performance comparable to those parts, while its 65 W TDP and locked multiplier make it a stable, high-efficiency desktop part rather than an overclocking-focused chip.

Gaming Performance

The FACT PACK contains no measuredFps data for this exact combination. The measuredFpsUltraByGame table is empty, dataIsMeasured is false, and pairRankByFps is null. Consequently, no per-game ultra-setting FPS values can be reported. All FPS discussion here is estimated from benchmark scores, not from in-game measurements.

The GPU side supplies a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6,600, a Geekbench Vulkan score of 260,075, a Geekbench OpenCL score of 219,065, and a Passmark G3D score of 34,245. These are strong synthetic indicators for high-detail gaming. The CPU side adds a Passmark single-thread score of 4,881 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 6,909, which should keep frame pacing strong in CPU-bound scenes. In GPU-bound scenes, the RTX 4080 SUPER’s 16 GB GDDR6X frame buffer and 736.3 GB/s memory bandwidth should handle large texture sets and high-detail geometry. The estimated character of this combination is high-refresh, ultra-settings gaming, but exact frame rates would need measured FPS rows to confirm.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: The CPU’s strong single-core results, Cinebench R23 single-core 6,909 and Passmark single-thread 4,881, combine with the GPU’s 3DMark Steel Nomad score of 6,600 to suggest high-refresh potential at ultra settings. This is an estimate, as no measured FPS data exists.

Streaming: With 24 cores and 24 threads, a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 48,945, and a Passmark multithread score of 56,602, the CPU has enough aggregate throughput to handle gaming alongside simultaneous streaming and background workloads without the CPU becoming the obvious constraint.

Video editing: Video editors can draw on the CPU’s 24 threads and the GPU’s 16 GB frame buffer. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 48,945 and Passmark floating-point score of 194,988 contribute to render-heavy work, while the GPU compute score of 19,822 and OpenCL score of 219,065 point to accelerated effects processing.

3D rendering: CPU-based render workloads benefit from the 48,945 Cinebench R23 multi-core result and 56,602 Passmark multithread result. GPU-based rendering can use the RTX 4080 SUPER’s 52.22 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 52.22 TFLOPS FP16 throughput, plus its Passmark GPU compute score of 19,822.

Software development: Developers compiling code and running test suites should find the 164,869 integer math score, 602,121 data compression score, 73,651 random string sorting score, and 56,602 multithread score useful for build pipelines, packaging, and parallel workloads.

Student and office work: This is more compute than everyday documents require, but the 65 W TDP, integrated Arc Xe-LPG Graphics, and 95th CPU percentile make it a responsive desktop for multitasking. The ECC memory support also suits environments where data integrity matters.

Who Should Build It

This pairing suits high-refresh gamers who want ultra-settings capability without a CPU bottleneck. The CPU is at the 95th percentile and the GPU at the 86th percentile, so the processor has headroom for gaming workloads. Content creators working on video editing and 3D rendering can use the CPU’s Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 48,945 and the GPU’s compute score of 19,822. Developers building large projects can lean on the integer math score of 164,869 and multithread score of 56,602. Students and office users get a 65 W desktop with 24 threads and integrated graphics, which is far more performance than basic tasks require but still efficient. Small business workstations can make use of ECC memory support, the active production status of the CPU, and the high aggregate benchmark standing. Users looking for an unlocked multiplier should note that multiplierUnlocked is false, so this platform is not built around processor overclocking.

Balance and Bottleneck

The CPU is the higher-ranked component in this pair, sitting at the 95th percentile versus the GPU’s 86th percentile. In gaming, the GPU is therefore the more likely limiting factor when graphical load increases, because the CPU’s relative headroom is larger. The TDP split reinforces this: the CPU draws 65 W while the GPU has a 320 W TDP and a suggested PSU of 700 W. For multithreaded productivity, the CPU is the primary engine. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 48,945 and Passmark multithread score of 56,602 dominate the non-graphics workload picture. No measured FPS scaling exists to quantify the exact bottleneck, since pairRankByFps is null. The percentile positions are the only direct scaling evidence available, and they point to a CPU-favored balance with the GPU as the more constrained half under graphical load.

GPU Analysis

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is built on the AD103 chip with the Ada Lovelace architecture. It is manufactured by TSMC on a 5 nm process, with 45,900 million transistors on a 379 mm² die and a transistor density of 121.1M / mm². The GPU runs a base clock of 2,295 MHz and a boost clock of 2,550 MHz. Memory is 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, with a memory clock of 1,438 MHz, listed as 23 Gbps effective, producing 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The chip contains 10,240 shading units, 320 TMUs, 112 ROPs, 80 RT cores, and 320 tensor cores. Pixel rate is 285.6 GPixel/s, texture rate is 816.0 GTexel/s, FP32 throughput is 52.22 TFLOPS, and FP16 throughput is 52.22 TFLOPS at a 1:1 ratio.

Benchmark results place the card at the 86th GPU percentile with an average benchmark score of 54,209. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score is 6,600, Geekbench OpenCL is 219,065, Geekbench Vulkan is 260,075, Passmark G3D is 34,245, and Passmark GPU compute is 19,822. Passmark’s legacy DirectX scores are 381 in DirectX 9, 193 in DirectX 10, 301 in DirectX 11, and 134 in DirectX 12, while the Passmark G2D score is 1,270. The nearest rivals are very close: the RTX 4080 SUPER sits 0.1 percent below the RTX 4080, 1.1 percent below the Radeon Pro W5700X, 2.7 percent below the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB, and 2.8 percent below the Radeon 8060S in average score. API support includes DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. For rendering work, the combination of 16 GB VRAM, 736.3 GB/s bandwidth, and 52.22 TFLOPS FP32 indicates a card that can handle large textures and shader-heavy scenes without appearing memory-starved.

Benchmark Performance

The CPU delivers an average benchmark score of 75,488 and holds the 95th percentile position among all CPUs. Its exact benchmark score set includes Cinebench R15 multi-core 4,933, Cinebench R15 single-core 696, Cinebench R20 multi-core 20,556, Cinebench R20 single-core 2,901, Cinebench R23 multi-core 48,945, Cinebench R23 single-core 6,909, Passmark data compression 602,121, Passmark data encryption 46,949, Passmark extended instructions 45,357, Passmark find prime numbers 459, Passmark floating-point math 194,988, Passmark integer math 164,869, Passmark multithread 56,602, Passmark physics 3,598, Passmark random string sorting 73,651, and Passmark single-thread 4,881.

The GPU delivers an average benchmark score of 54,209 and sits at the 86th GPU percentile. Its exact benchmark scores include 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 6,600, Geekbench OpenCL 219,065, Geekbench Vulkan 260,075, Passmark DirectX 9 381, Passmark DirectX 10 193, Passmark DirectX 11 301, Passmark DirectX 12 134, Passmark G2D 1,270, Passmark G3D 34,245, and Passmark GPU compute 19,822.

The combined picture is a desktop build at the 91st combined percentile. The CPU is the standout, sitting within 0.3 percent of its four closest rivals, while the GPU is within 2.8 percent of its four closest rivals. This is a CPU-leaning system with a still very strong GPU that is unlikely to be the weak link in most workloads.

FAQ

Q: Does the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 support ECC memory?

A: Yes. The eccMemory field is true, meaning ECC DDR5 is supported on the dual-channel memory bus.

Q: What socket does the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 use?

A: It uses Intel Socket 1851.

Q: How much VRAM and memory bandwidth does the RTX 4080 SUPER have?

A: It has 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, with 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth and a memory clock of 1,438 MHz, listed as 23 Gbps effective.

Q: Is there measured FPS data for this exact CPU and GPU combination?

A: No. The measuredFpsUltraByGame table is empty, dataIsMeasured is false, and pairRankByFps is null.

Q: Is the Core Ultra 9 285 multiplier unlocked?

A: No. The multiplierUnlocked field is false.

Q: What PSU does the RTX 4080 SUPER require?

A: The suggested PSU is 700 W, and the GPU uses a 1x 16-pin power connector.

Q: How many cores and threads does the Core Ultra 9 285 have?

A: It has 24 cores and 24 threads.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The platform is built around Intel Socket 1851, with the CPU listed as active in production status. Memory support is DDR5 over a dual-channel bus, and ECC is enabled. The CPU provides PCIe Gen 5 with 20 CPU lanes, while the GPU uses a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. The RTX 4080 SUPER has a TDP of 320 W and a suggested PSU of 700 W, compared to the CPU’s 65 W TDP. The GPU also carries a 1x 16-pin power connector and is a triple-slot card.

The GPU is listed as end-of-life, with the GeForce 50 series as its successor. That makes a newer GeForce 50-series GPU the logical next graphics upgrade while the CPU remains on an active socket. The CPU’s locked multiplier means processor-level overclocking is not part of the upgrade path. On the platform side, the DDR5 memory support, ECC option, and 20 Gen 5 CPU lanes provide headroom for workstation-style memory and storage configurations.

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