Intel Announces Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at $299 & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus at $199

[Brent_Justice]

Introduction Intel is announcing its official “Arrow Lake” refresh with the new Core Ultra 200S Plus Desktop CPU series. As the name suggests, these new models are based on the current generation Arrow Lake architecture, based on the LGA1851 CPU socket and motherboards. These are desktop CPUs and intended for the DIY market. In fact, […]

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[igor_kavinski]

So this gen brings:

Special "mechanical" features
Higher D2D speeds upto 900 MHz (wish they would mention Ring, NGU and D2D speed in Intel ARK)
Better IMC to support 7200 MT/s RAM at stock speed
CQDIMM quad rank RAM support (these are gonna be HEAVY!)
100 MHz higher boost speeds
An extra cluster of four E-cores
Intel Binary Optimization Tool to re-order instructions in game executables (and applications too?)

Did I miss anything?

Is this gen finally going to drop the prices on 14900KS?

 

[David_Schroth]

It seems to me that the 270K Plus may be pretty darn close to 285K performance at near half the price...

 

[igor_kavinski]

I hope this means that 290K or 295K, whenever it gets released, has 10P+8E core configuration. They could also do 8P+20E but that's kinda boring and only useful for Cinebench etc.

 

[Brent_Justice]

I don't see a 285K refresh happening. 270K & 250K > binned 265K & 245K with adjustments. 285K was pretty much maxed out already. Nova Lake launching most likely 2027 at this point (rumors suggest) was intended end of year, that's the true generational release. ALR is just a refresh, not a new generation.