{"id":506115,"date":"2026-07-02T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:44:14","slug":"intel-raises-msrp-of-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-and-core-ultra-5-250k-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506115\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Raises MSRP of Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel quietly increased the recommended selling price of its recently launched Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus &#8220;Arrow Lake-S&#8221; desktop processors from their launch prices of $299.99 and $199.99, respectively. The 270K Plus now sees a significant 16% price increase, and comes with an MSRP of $349.99. Meanwhile, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, which received much praise in the media for its disruptive price, gets a 15% price increase, with an MSRP of $229.99. The new prices are reflected in Intel&#8217;s online product information pages for the 270K Plus and 250K Plus. <\/p>\n<p>Both chips are Socket LGA1851 processors meant for Intel 800-series chipset motherboards. The 270K Plus offers an 8P+16E core configuration that maxes out the &#8220;Arrow Lake-S&#8221; silicon, with its entire 36 MB L3 cache, and a maximum P-core boost frequency of 5.50 GHz; meanwhile the 250K Plus comes with the highest core count among any Intel &#8220;5&#8221; segment processor, with 6P+12E, and 30 MB of L3 cache. Both chips also support Intel&#8217;s new Binary Optimization technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/SUITyMLvWH1te2tN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1140\" data-height=\"382\" data-fancybox=\"g350465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SUITyMLvWH1te2tN_thm.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/u4yaNUf2Xb3oATDE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1133\" data-height=\"377\" data-fancybox=\"g350465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/u4yaNUf2Xb3oATDE_thm.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel quietly increased the recommended selling price of its recently launched Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-506115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}