Unreleased Intel Core Ultra 9 290K Plus Appears in Geekbench With 17% Gain Over 285K
The unconfirmed listing suggests Intel’s skipped flagship may still be in play.
Overview
- The Geekbench database shows an entry for a Core Ultra 9 290K Plus with a single-core score of 3747 and a multi-core score of 26117.
- Compared with Intel’s current top 285K chip, the scores point to about a 17% uplift in both single-core and multi-core performance.
- Intel left this model out of its recent Arrow Lake Refresh launch, which had fueled rumors the flagship was canceled.
- Geekbench’s multi-core test often scales poorly beyond about 16 cores, so analysts treat the higher single-core score as the clearest sign of per-thread gains.
- IT之家 relayed Wccftech’s report from the public benchmark database, and Intel has not confirmed the chip, its specifications, or any release plans.