• Performance Hybrid Architecture: Integrates two all-new core microarchitectures into a single die, prioritizing and distributing workloads to optimize performance.
• Intel® Thread Director: Optimizes workloads by helping the OS scheduler intelligently distribute workloads to the optimal cores.
• NPU: A neural processing unit is a processor built for handling AI & machine learning tasks. Select Intel® Core™ Ultra processors include a CPU, a GPU, and an NPU.
• TOPS Trillions of operations per second. A calculated technical specification of the theoretical maximum an AI accelerator can achieve if it is 100% efficient with software and workload.
• Intel® Graphics Featuring Xe LPG Graphics Architecture: A purpose-built graphics architecture optimized for lower wattage and higher performance per watt. Rich media and intelligent graphics capabilities enable amplified visual complexity, enhanced 3D performance, and faster image processing.
• Intel® Smart Cache: CPU memory caching method for sharing among P-cores, E-cores, and processor graphics if applicable.
• Intel® eXtreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU): A precision toolset for tuning and overclocking, featuring processor overclocking, so that new and experienced users can get more from their unlocked processors.
• Intel® eXtreme Memory Profile (Intel® XMP) 3.0: Allows users to overclock compatible DDR5 memory modules to enhance the gaming features built into PCs with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors.
• Intel® Speed Shift Technology: Gives your CPU finer control over its frequency, allowing a fast jump up to its maximum clock speed.
• Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0: Identifies the processor’s fastest cores and directs critical workloads to them as power, heat, and workload allow.
• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0: Accelerates processor and graphics performance for peak loads, automatically allowing processor cores to run faster than the rated operating frequency if they’re operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.
• Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology: Power optimization tools that intelligently adapt power policies based on usage mode and temperature, with a new policy that determines and directs application resource optimization in real time.
• Intel® Application Optimization: A software policy within Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology (DTT) that determines and directs application resource optimization in real-time.
• Intel® Deep Learning Boost: Significantly accelerates inference performance for deep-learning workloads optimized to use VNNI.
• Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost: Opportunistically and automatically increases clock frequency of select Intel® Core™ Ultra Desktop processors by up to 100 MHz if the processor is at a temperature of 70°C or lower and turbo power budget is available.
• Intel® Adaptive Boost: Technology Intelligently boosts the processor to run faster than its rated frequency as power, heat, and workload allow.
• Intel® Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 3.5: Designed to process AI speech and audio applications such as neural noise cancellation while simultaneously freeing up CPU resources for overall system performance and responsiveness.
• Thunderbolt™ 5 Technology: Next-generation universal cable connectivity for a simple, reliable connection that provides incredible performance.
• Thunderbolt™ 4 Technology: An Intel-developed connectivity standard that delivers power, data, and a video signal over a single connection. The Thunderbolt™ technology certification establishes mandatory minimum requirements for cables, PCs, and accessories to help ensure greater reliability and interoperability across devices and vendors.
• Thunderbolt™ Share: Unlocks ultra-fast PC-to-PC connectivity experiences.
• Discrete Wi-Fi 7 Support: The next step in the evolution of wireless connectivity, helping provide extreme speed, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Intel® Connectivity Performance Suite: A software solution that improves PC networking performance by creating a personalized network experience based on each user’s unique situation, automatically prioritizing high-priority traffic over lower-priority traffic.

Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Desktop Processor 285K

• 24 cores (8 P-cores + 16 E-cores)
• Up to 5.7 GHz unlocked.
• Integrated Intel® Graphics w/ 4 Xe-cores
• 36MB Intel® Smart Cache (L3)
• Compatible with Intel 800-series chipset-based motherboards
• DDR5 Memory support
• 125W Base Processor Power
• No thermal solution included