A new leak, allegedly of the 24-core Intel Nova Lake-S desktop CPU, was recently discovered in the PassMark PerformanceTest 11.1. The allege Core Ultra 4000 Series processor was listed under the generic “Intel 0000) name, and was reportedly submitted all the way back in September this year.
One benchmark details that comes to light in the benchmark is its single-thread metrics, which achieved 5,210 points on PassMark PerformanceTest 11.1. As per Videocardz’s comparison, that is faster than the current Core Ultra 9 285K, which was recorded at 5,191 points, while its AMD rival, the Ryzen 9950X3D, scored 4,805 points.
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