Leak: 28-core Nova Lake beats 285K and 9950X3D in single-thread PassMark

A PassMark entry for an unidentified 28-core Intel Nova Lake-S chip, listed as "Intel 0000," scored 5,210 points in single-thread testing versus 5,059 for the Core Ultra 9 285K and 4,805 for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Its multi-thread result of 61,509 trails both at 67,274 and 72,066. The results come from unverified pre-release samples.

• Single-thread: 5,210 points, 3% ahead of 285K and 8.4% ahead of 9950X3D
• Multi-thread: 61,509 versus 67,274 for 285K and 72,066 for 9950X3D
• Entries date to September, about 3.3GHz base with turbo near 4.8GHz
• Nova Lake is expected to use LGA 1954 and 900-series chipsets