Intel's Core Ultra 5 235HX Pristine Performance on Initial PassMark Benchmarks
Fresh passmark benchmarks on the Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX processor show exciting performance gains when considering the Arrow Lake-HX mobile CPU family futures. This processor is a Core Ultra 5 SKU, and because it does not have hyper-threading, the chip, however, exhibits massive generational uplifts against surprisingly competitive chips in the previous generation flagship-tier processors.
Core Ultra 5 235HX PassMark Performance
As tested by PassMark, the processor has fourteen cores and features turbo clocks up to 5.1 GHz on its P-Cores. The processor recorded these average scores from two tests on PassMark:
- Single-Thread Rating: 4,708
- Multi-Thread Rating (CPU Mark): 40,122
How it Compares with Other Processors
Generally interesting, these results emerge because of the cross-reference against high-performance CPUs:
- vs. Core i5 14500HX (Predecessor): The 235HX is approximately 30% faster in single-core and a substantial 38% faster in multi-core tests.
- vs. Core i7 14700HX: It manages to be around 18% faster in single-core and 7% faster in multi-core performance, despite the i7 having more cores and threads (20 cores, 28 threads).
- vs. Core i9 14900HX: It's most remarkably exceeding the flagship Core i9 14900HX by about 11% for single-core performance and is only 11% slower in multi-threaded tasks.
- vs. AMD Ryzen X3D: The 235HX also showed a roughly 6% lead in single-core performance over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 9 9955HX3D in these specific tests.
Implications for Mobile Performance
Indeed, these synthetic benchmarks suggest that the raw processing power of the Arrow Lake-HX series will be remarkable, placing chips such as the Core Ultra 5 235HX as superb candidates for productivity and demanding tasks on mobile platforms.
It is worth mentioning that scores like these are not translatable into actual gaming performance as other determining factors are involved, and already, AMD's X3D processors are speculated to continue their domination in that area. However, in terms of sheer computational capability, the Core Ultra 200HX series offers a very significant improvement for Intel's high-performance mobile solutions.
