According to some fresh benchmarks from Phoronix, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K is now running about 9% faster on average under Linux than it did at launch. And here is the kicker: it’s doing that while using 15% less power. Usually, to get that kind of speed boost, you have to buy a whole new chip . This upgrade is entirely free. It comes down to a year’s worth of software polish—better microcode, smarter kernel tuning, and compiler fixes. Essentially, the software finally
