Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 25 October 2024 at 11:16 AM EDT. Page 11 of 11. 42 Comments.
RawTherapee benchmark with settings of Total Benchmark Time. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Boat, Acceleration: CPU-only. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.
GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: unsharp-mask. Ryzen 5 9600X @ 105W cTDP was the fastest.
OpenSCAD benchmark with settings of Render: Pistol. Core Ultra 9 285K @ DDR5-8000 was the fastest.
Stockfish benchmark with settings of Chess Benchmark. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.

Those wishing to go through all ~400 benchmarks in full of the 245K / 285K can see this OpenBenchmarking.org result file for all of the raw data as well as the CPU power metrics for each benchmark.

For the Core Ultra 5 245K processor during the entire duration of the day-long benchmarking per run, the Core Ultra 5 245K on average was consuming around 78 Watts. This was well below the prior-gen Core i5 14600K Raptor Lake Refresh CPU with a 127 Watt average and 236 Watt peak.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Benchmarks. Ryzen 9 9950X was the fastest.

Finally the geo mean for all the benchmarks successfully run. These numbers do vary slightly from the geo mean numbers reported in yesterday's 285K review since a few tests were having stability issues with the Core Ultra 5 245K on the DDR5-8000 DIMMs. The geo mean numbers only incorporate the raw performance results for the benchmarks where all of the CPUs were successfully tested and thus omits the benchmarks where there were the 245K + DDR5-8000 issues. On a geo-mean basis across all of the benchmarks conducted on all of the processors, the Core Ultra 5 245K was similar to the Ryzen 5 9600X with a 105 Watt cTDP and slightly behind the Ryzen 9 7900. With a ~$309 price for the Core Ultra 5 245K, this is well above the Ryzen 5 9600X pricing at around $250 USD. Generationally was around an 11% improvement going from the Core i5 14600K to Core Ultra 5 245K while also enjoying much greater power efficiency.

Now that these initial Linux benchmarks of the Core Ultra 5 245K and Core Ultra 9 285K are out there, over the next several days will be focusing on more detailed/specific benchmark areas such as a broader DDR5 memory comparison on Arrow Lake, more Linux gaming benchmarks, P vs. E core performance/behavior on Linux, and other areas expressed by Phoronix Premium readers.

Thanks to Intel for providing the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z890 HERO and Core Ultra 245K/285K processors for Linux compatibility/support and performance testing at Phoronix.

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