CPU Performance

To start testing off I went with a rendering-focused benchmark with the always popular Blender. I tested with the latest Blender Benchmark available 4.2 and I have all of the results stacked together so we can get the overall picture. I don’t have some of our legacy CPUs tested here, the plan was to also include Blender 4.0 results but both of the new CPUs had problems running that test leaving just these results. This does give us a look at the 285K compared to the 14900K and the 245K next to the 14600K as well. There is a good margin between the 285K and the 14900K but the 245K didn’t pull away as much when compared with the 14600K.

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Continuing with the video encoding theme I also have Handbrake which is an open-source transcoder. For this test I am taking a 4k video down to 1080p 30 FPS, the results are the average FPS of that task. The Ultra 9 285K is way out in front here, with a HUGE lead over everything else tested. The Ultra 5 245K also did extremely well, running up near both the 13900K and 14900K in this test.

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For the always popular Cinebench, I am testing with the older Cinebench R20 and R23 as well as the new 2024 edition as well. I always like Cinebench because we have multi-core and single-core performance which gives us a good look at the performance of the whole CPU and IPC performance. In R20 on the multi-core test, the Ultra 9 285K is up at the top with a good margin and the Ultra 5 245K was sitting at 9843 vs the 8902 of the 14600K. For the R20 single-core results the 285K was once again up at the top and the 245K moved up into the group of CPUs up at the top. For Cinebench R23 the 285K was once again at the top with plenty of room ahead. I should note however we haven’t gotten the latest Ryzen 9900X and 9950X processors which would also be competing with the 285K. The 285K leads in single-core tests here as well then the 245K is sitting ahead of the 14600K with a healthy lead, almost passing the 7900. Last up was the latest Cinebench 2024 test and its results were similar to R23. What is interesting to see in that test though is the two Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs that we have tested on the single-core results edging out in front of the 245K but the 285K is still way ahead there as well.

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Next up we have ray tracing-focused rendering benchmarks. Here I tested the CPUs in POV-Ray and V-Ray including the newer V-Ray Benchmark 5. POV-Ray was also tested with a single core and across all of the cores. The Ultra 9 285K is way out in front for the multi-core test with a score of 14424 and is also in front for the single core with 911.91. The 245K finally pulled away from the 14600K enough to have a few other CPUs sitting between the two and its single-core performance was also impressive in that it caught up but didn’t pass the 13900K and 14900K with their higher clock speeds. In the old V-Ray as well as V-Ray 5 the 245K improved significantly on the performance seen with the 14600K. Interestingly the Ryzen 7950X is still the top result in the V-Ray Benchmark 5 graph which really would be interesting once we get the newest Ryzen CPUs into the mix as well. The 285K did improve significantly compared to the 14900K here, going from 24072 up to 29201.

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I also tested using the CPUz’s built-in benchmark which does run on a single thread and with all threads. In the multi-thread test, the 285K improved on the 14900K by over 2000 points. The 245K saw a big jump over the 14600K as well putting it up into the range of the older flagship 12900K. For single-core performance, however, things were more interesting. Both CPUs dropped in performance in this test compared to their previous generation counterparts. The 285K is sitting behind the 14900K with a 906 to the 14900K’s 940 for example.

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Next, we have wPrime which is a classic overclocking benchmark that calculates pi out to 1024 million digits and is timed. This is a multi-thread heavy test which has the older high-core count CPUs still all over the top of the charts and you can see that with the top CPUs sitting at 8 or more cores. The Ultra 9 285K scored a 46.071 which was significantly better than the 14900K but it still put it behind the top three Ryzen CPUs from last generation. The Ultra 5 245K scored 99.755 which was much better than the 173.777 of the 14600K but again still below what you would expect. This test has not gone well for any of the Intel CPUs that have e-cores but the improvements we see here are at least going in the right direction.

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7 Zip is another open-source program, this time for compressing and decompressing all of your files. Here I have run the benchmark and we have three results. The combined MIPS is a combination of compressing and decompressing performance. Then I have it broken down between the two. The combined results have the Ultra 9 285K again behind the 14900K as well as the 13900K but way out in front of last generation's flagship Ryzen CPUs. The Ultra 5 245K was tied with the 8700G and behind the 14600K by a big margin as well. The decompressing and compressing graph shows us that a lot of the problem was in the decompressing performance, the 285K did outperform the 14900K and 13900K in the compressing performance there but was still behind the 7950X.

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Jetstream 2 is a compilation benchmark that takes a long list of HTML5 and Java in-browser tests runs them all three times and puts together an overall score. I love this benchmark because let's be honest, most people are using their browser more than any other game or program. Jetstream gives some interesting results sometimes though but it tends to prefer high IPC or single-core performance and there are some situations where it prefers lower core-count CPUs. The two 9000 Series Ryzen CPUs are still at the top of the chart here but the Ultra 9 285K did at least improve on the performance seen by the 14900K here. The Ultra 5 245K on the other hand did much better with it having a big gap between it and the 14600K and almost matching the 14900K’s performance here.

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For Passmark Performance Test I used the latest version, Performance Test 11 and also tested with the older Performance Test 10 as well. I only look at the overall CPU score which takes a few different synthetic benchmarks and combines the results to put together an overall score. This is a test that does favor multi-threaded performance over IPC. In Performance Test 10 the Ultra 9 285K is up at the top and improved on the 14900K’s score by 13.5%. The 245K jumped ahead of the 14600K but there is still a gap between it and the next fastest CPU here. For Passmark Performance Test 11 the Ultra 9 285K is at the top ahead of the 7950X3D here. I was also surprised to see it get the same score across both tests. This time it improved on the 14900K by 13.9% and the 245K bested the 14600K by 10.1%.

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Crossmark is from BAPCo which also makes SYSmark and this is a cross-platform test where you can compare performance between phones and both Windows and Mac computers. This is the start of our overall PC benchmarks and Crossmark uses a mix of real-world tests to output an overall score. The 285K is up at the top here once again with a 9.1% improvement over the 14900K. The 245K did less, improving on the 14600K by 3.3%.

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PCMark 10 is a great test because it tests things like video calls, browser performance, Excel, and Word performance to give an idea of real-world performance. It tends to like higher clock speeds but does take raw core count into account as well which you can see. The Ultra 9 285K struggled here, coming in right with the last generation 14900K, and with the mid-range Ryzen 7 9700X sitting up at the top it doesn’t give much hope that when we get our hands on the higher-end 9000 Series CPUs that it will even be close. I also test using the PCMark 10 Applications benchmark which uses Microsoft Office for real-world testing and here the 285K did much better, both of the new Core Ultra CPUs are up at the top here with the 245K scoring just ahead of the 14900K.

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Moving the focus over towards gaming my next test is using Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark. Dolphin 5.0 is a Wii emulator and like most emulators, it doesn’t care about high core counts at all. It only runs two in total. Clock speeds are king here most of the time which is why all of the 5 GHz+ CPUs are at the top of the chart here. The Ultra 9 285K didn’t outperform the 13900K or 14900K here and has both the 9700X and 9600X from AMD ahead of it as well. The 245K was similar as well finishing the test in 188 seconds to the 183 of the 14600K.

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Before diving into game testing I wanted to check out synthetic performance using 3DMark. I tested with the older DX11 Fire Strike test as well as the newer DX12 Time Spy. I also added the new 3DMark CPU Profile benchmark into the mix as well which does a good job of showing the full range of thread counts that you might see being used in games as well as a max threads option that does everything above 16 threads. In the Fire Strike test, the Ultra 9 285K was out in front here. It improved on the 14900K’s score here by 8.7%. The 245K on the other hand just barely improved on what we saw last time with the 14600K with just a 1.4% improvement. For Time Spy however the 285K was down below the 14900K and the 13900K was tied with the 12900K, this was still out in front of what the 7000 Series Ryzen CPUs did. The Ultra 5 245K was sitting ahead of the 7900 and below the 7950X3D but significantly lower than the 14600K. Then in the last test, the CPU profile of both CPUs is out in front of the last generation CPUs in all of the results.

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I did of course test the two new CPUs in games as well. I will dive into testing the integrated GPU in the next section. Here though they are paired up with a powerful GPU (the RTX 4090) and I compare CPU to CPU performance. One thing is for sure, there is room for improvement here depending on what games I tested with. Some of the games like Dirt 5 saw a big performance jump coming from the 14900K to the 285K or the 14600K to the 245K but in others, performance dropped. To get a good look at it I put all of the percentages together in the table below. I suspect that there will be more improvements coming to Windows with the APO (application performance optimization) or that our results have an issue. If that is the case I will update this and dive into retesting. Intel did show that their main goals with this generation were similar performance to Raptor Lake-R with power consumption being reduced.

Ultra 5 245K

Ultra 9 285K

Dirt 5

17.8%

19%

Far Cry 6

0.6%

-2.2%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

8.5%

2.2%

Metro Exodus

-15.5%

8.6%

Watch Dogs Legion

26.2%

13%

Borderlands 3

-2.3%

-6.6%

 

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Last up I also run a few tests in AIDA64, these take a look at cache performance for L1, L2, and L3 cache as well as memory speeds, Precision FLOPS, and Integer IOPS. The biggest thing I wanted to see here was how latency, especially memory latency has changed with the new design. The 14900K came in at 85 ns vs 90 for the 285K which wasn’t as bad as I expected. Single and Double precision FLOPS improved significantly, as did AES-256 performance as well.

AIDA64

L1 Cache Read

L1 Cache Write

L1 Cache Latency

L2 Cache Read

L2 Cache Write

L2 Cache Latency

L3 Cache Read

L3 Cache Write

L3 Cache Latency

GB/s

GB/s

ns

GB/s

GB/s

ns

GB/s

GB/s

ns

AMD Ryzen R7 2700X

999.43

502.5

1

978.03

495.12

2.8

414.95

417.71

8.8

AMD Ryzen R5 2600X

768.13

388.05

1

729.37

366.01

2.9

429.09

323.83

9.1

Ryzen 5 2400G

485.01

238.29

1

459.8

232.2

3.1

222.96

181.6

9.6

Ryzen 3 2200G

460.55

227.41

1.1

352.84

177.56

3.3

137.3

171.2

10.2

Intel i7-8700K

1595.6

803.65

0.9

640.37

397.14

2.6

337

213.67

11

Intel i5-8400

1417.2

710.79

1

543.81

352.9

3.1

270.89

186.82

13

Intel Core i9-7980XE

3758.3

1896.7

1.1

1671.7

1069.9

5.6

229.61

118.4

21

Intel Core i9-7960X

3532.3

1785.2

1

1571.6

1003.5

5.1

220.22

121.04

19.8

Intel Core i7-7820X

1969.9

995.02

1

884.63

574.74

5.6

114.4

103.57

19.2

Intel Core i5-7640X

1044.8

31888

1

397.26

247

2.9

228.31

163.86

11.1

Intel Core i9-7900X

2418.5

709.16

1

1037.3

521.94

5.2

124.16

106.78

21.2

Intel Core i7-7740X

1102.7

561.25

0.9

424.55

304.3

2.7

287.01

186.67

21.2

Intel i7-6900K

1963.9

999.59

1

710.28

310.34

4.1

243.96

195.41

14.6

Intel i7-7700K

1114.6

560.82

0.9

415.45

285.97

2.7

234.5

188.7

10.4

Intel i7-5960X

1748.5

874.6

1.2

623.08

272.77

3.5

260.72

184.92

15.3

AMD Ryzen R7 1800X

917.46

460.16

1.1

831.95

446.37

4.7

388.18

386.01

12.4

AMD Ryzen R7 1700X

867.89

435.33

1.2

809.29

419.38

5

369.75

350.31

12.9

AMD Ryzen R7 1700

793.9

398.12

1.3

742.92

389.73

5.4

334.36

332.12

14.2

AMD Ryzen R5 1600X

689.47

345.95

1.1

630.99

334.93

4.7

386.48

326.86

12.3

AMD Ryzen R5 1500X

446.84

224.01

1.1

306.82

211.58

11.8

306.82

211.58

11.8

AMD Ryzen R5 2600

685.38

344.05

1

669.28

333.5

3.1

381.16

320.56

9.8

AMD Ryzen R7 2700X

849.91

426.09

1

837.76

418.75

3

357.51

356.71

9.4

Intel i7-8086K

1596.4

803.56

0.9

623.36

423.53

2.6

380.04

243.73

10.9

Intel i9-9900K

2375.6

1195.4

0.8

907.65

626.34

2.4

302.01

221.1

11

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

3098.6

1551.4

0.9

1545.3

1416.8

2.8

1014.4

836.39

11.5

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

2133.2

1072.9

0.9

1069.1

993.49

2.8

611.53

573.21

10.2

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

1547.4

779.24

1

777.62

745.3

2.8

584.93

538.45

10.4

AMD Ryzen 3 3400G

508.97

253.87

1

490.26

247.04

3

233.57

193.62

9.3

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X

1080.5

541.5

0.9

541.84

530.5

2.7

322.13

321.33

11.1

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

965.85

484.67

1

485.55

460.71

3.1

374.11

343.53

11.8

Intel i5-10600K

1676.6

840.87

0.8

662.98

452.67

2.5

361.35

238.47

10.5

Intel i9-10900K

3162.1

1586.7

0.8

1201.8

759.97

2.4

407.66

245.94

11.4

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

1721.4

869.69

0.9

851.89

831.97

2.6

276.24

298.84

11

Intel i9-11900K

4542.8

2299.3

1

1413.2

691.62

2.5

330.32

213.28

11.4

Intel i5-11600K

3412.3

1724.9

1

960.91

526.76

2.7

319.1

198.57

11.4

Intel i9-12900K

2310

1438.7

1

1233.5

562.72

2.9

678.84

418.11

19.8

Intel i5-12600K

1461.1

971.78

1.1

846.4

360.51

3.2

598.86

292.09

21.4

AMD Ryzen 5 4500

1561.9

784.1

1

785.34

751.61

2.9

350.05

571.19

10.5

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

1646.6

831.24

0.9

832.43

767.22

2.7

445.8

437.73

11.9

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

2267.8

1157.8

0.9

1147.6

1026.1

2.6

501.53

526.11

11.5

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

2722.9

1381

0.7

1361.1

1305.1

2.7

887.95

901.2

10.1

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

1996.3

1019.3

0.7

1020.9

999.93

2.6

847.43

847.61

10.5

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

5252.2

2685

0.7

2615.6

2588.4

2.6

1293.7

1357.3

9.9

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

4042.4

2051.4

0.7

2008.5

1956.3

2.5

1278.6

1394.1

9.8

Intel i9-13900K

2005.7

872.39

0.9

2280.2

851.63

3.7

1729.2

619.38

18.3

Intel i5-13600K

3218.4

1472.5

1.1

1156

479.87

4.5

907.63

406.76

14.9

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

3839.2

2023.6

0.7

1925.5

1865.1

2.7

1146

1046.4

10.3

AMD Ryzen 7 7700

2630.8

1333.7

0.8

1336.2

1298.2

2.9

826.97

879.08

10.4

AMD Ryzen 5 7600

1898

963.23

0.8

964.63

946.49

2.9

698.77

690.84

10.8

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

4734.9

2518.4

0.8

2558.7

2422.3

2.7

1314.4

1376.8

12.5

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

2342.7

1239.1

0.8

1252.6

1171.8

3.1

674.02

703.18

12.8

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

2350.8

1228

0.8

1230.7

1219.8

2.8

867.87

893.95

11.4

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

1777.2

930.44

0.8

941.76

941.91

2.9

721.29

702.59

10.7

Intel i9-14900K

5923.3

1928.7

0.9

2160.2

861.9

3.6

1158.8

540.95

20.7

Intel i5-14600K

3525.3

1248

1

1310.9

547.83

3.9

590.43

359.64

14.8

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

3716.7

1942.9

0.7

1429.6

1469.6

2.6

805.86

807.74

11.9

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

4850.5

2576.9

0.7

1790.2

1804.4

2.5

1078.9

935.36

10.6

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

5719.9

4012.7

0.7

707.18

711.72

4

2387.3

1261

16.2

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

3513

2465.1

0.8

574.21

44.44

4.3

1428.4

664.64

15.3

 

 

AIDA64

Memory Read

Memory Write

Memory Latency

Single-Precision FLOPS

Double Precision FLOPS

AES-256

24-bit Integer IOPS

32-bit Integer IOPS

64-bit Integer IOPS

MB/s

MB/s

ns

GFLOPS

GFLOPS

MB/s

GIOPS

GIOPS

GIOPS

AMD Ryzen R7 2700X

50214

48578

65

507.9

253.9

70514

127.7

127.7

64.22

AMD Ryzen R5 2600X

50273

48346

65.5

383.2

191.4

51932

95.82

95.82

48.15

Ryzen 5 2400G

45967

47850

66.6

235.9

117.8

32388

58.94

58.98

29.67

Ryzen 3 2200G

35567

36240

118.4

225.8

112.6

27603

56.32

56.32

28.3

Intel i7-8700K

38421

40175

57.9

825

412.5

29406

370

370

51.55

Intel i5-8400

38096

40549

59.8

728.8

364.5

25192

323.5

323.5

45.55

Intel Core i9-7980XE

77004

68888

73.4

1831

915.5

69377

821.2

821.3

121.6

Intel Core i9-7960X

79416

71554

74.9

1681

840.6

65409

754

753.9

114.7

Intel Core i7-7820X

76049

73759

71.6

944.9

472.5

36420

423.7

423.7

63.85

Intel Core i5-7640X

30786

31888

68.5

536.5

268.2

18547

238.1

138.1

33.53

Intel Core i9-7900X

76856

72856

72.8

1148

574.5

45506

515.1

515

79.76

Intel Core i7-7740X

38455

40596

53.2

575.4

287.8

20503

258.1

258

35.97

Intel i7-6900K

66786

68130

61.9

1023

511.7

36340

255.9

255.9

63.96

Intel i7-7700K

38498

40448

52.7

575.7

287.9

20519

258

258

35.98

Intel i7-5960X

66108

49545

62.8

895.5

447.7

31783

223.9

223.9

55.97

AMD Ryzen R7 1800X

44031

43425

81.8

472.4

236.2

64016

118.1

118.1

59.03

AMD Ryzen R7 1700X

44493

43749

78.3

446.8

223.4

61730

111.7

111.7

55.84

AMD Ryzen R7 1700

45343

43777

82.6

408.5

204.3

56811

102.1

102.1

51.05

AMD Ryzen R5 1600X

44452

43918

83.7

354.9

177.5

49340

88.74

88.73

44.34

AMD Ryzen R5 1500X

44289

43746

83.1

229.8

114.8

31983

57.43

57.45

28.72

AMD Ryzen R5 2600

50385

48499

66.5

351

175.4

48939

88.03

88.02

44.01

AMD Ryzen R7 2700

50088

48343

65.9

434.3

217.2

60336

108.6

108.6

54.68

Intel i7-8086K

39069

40675

56.2

824.9

412.5

29397

369.9

369.9

51.55

Intel i9-9900K

39682

41015

51.1

1226

613

45542

550

549.8

79.79

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

53981

52271

70.7

1546

772.1

106943

385.7

385.7

96.57

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

51498

28739

67.3

1078

537.8

74474

271

271.2

67.77

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

50769

28736

68.9

799.5

400

55456

198.6

198.6

49.64

AMD Ryzen 3 3400G

49936

53502

67.1

257.2

128.5

35736

64.16

64.16

32.25

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X

51435

28743

66.4

551.6

276.1

38176

138.7

138.7

34.65

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

50246

28734

71.1

497.6

248.7

34946

124.4

124.4

31.09

Intel i5-10600K

43340

43430

48.2

863.8

431.9

30782

387.2

386.9

53.99

Intel i9-10900K

44972

43808

50.5

1632

815.7

58163

731.3

731.2

102

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

50972

28772

59.2

891.9

445.8

61623

709.6

709.7

55.72

Intel i9-11900K

44919

43343

51.8

1068

534.2

164966

547

547

182.7

Intel i5-11600K

43953

43468

55.6

838.7

419.4

123767

429.3

429.3

143.4

Intel i9-12900K

71418

72395

82

695.7

247.9

140499

400.6

400.6

166.2

Intel i5-12600K

65416

71336

87.8

432.5

216.2

86470

252.7

252.7

96.22

AMD Ryzen 5 4500

52683

53191

82.8

806

402.6

56578

201.5

201.3

50.35

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

48444

28753

70.9

853.2

426.2

107839

675.8

679.6

53.38

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

47858

28760

68.2

1158

577.9

137459

919.1

912.9

74.38

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

58755

80120

70

1392

694.6

192730

1205

1205

602.4

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

54720

80771

69.5

1046

523.1

147661

912.5

912.5

456.4

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

67342

76712

69

2735

1364

379510

2370

2370

1184

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

68064

78123

67.7

2062

1029

288134

1792

1789

895.4

Intel i9-13900K

76006

68902

86.1

2238

1116

157028

831.4

831.4

270.6

Intel i5-13600K

64721

62311

97.2

1294

647

86637

509.5

509.4

136.4

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

73968

73494

69.4

2007

998.7

267499

1710

1709

855.9

AMD Ryzen 7 7700

58694

79929

68.9

1369

684.7

185084

1192

1192

594.3

AMD Ryzen 5 7600

59454

81467

69.6

988.6

494.3

140625

861.9

861.2

431.2

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

77677

80314

68.1

2619

1311

178269

2239

2239

1120

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

65343

81313

71.9

1241

620.3

89694

1076

1076

538.3

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

75149

99082

74.5

1277

638.1

88895

1108

1108

554.1

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

75418

99134

71.6

969.3

484.6

69303

842.7

843.2

421.4

Intel i9-14900K

85919

76896

85.5

2462

1231

163454

936.6

937.3

291.6

Intel i5-14600K

79924

77188

83.9

1407

703.3

98868

560.1

560

154

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

62215

84220

68.7

2039

1016

64063

1753

1753

876.8

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

62204

84918

68.7

2683

1337

83891

2297

2292

1147

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

94135

85518

90.3

3553

1756

248079

1355

1413

440.9

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

89004

85829

89.6

2103

1045

149961

784.9

786.1

267.6

 

 

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