{"id":517578,"date":"2026-03-11T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:53:12","slug":"intel-announces-core-ultra-270k-plus-and-250k-plus-its-fastest-gaming-desktop-processors-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517578\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel announces Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus, its \u2018fastest gaming desktop processors ever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel hasn\u2019t made it easy to buy a flagship desktop chip. The company\u2019s 2022 and 2023 Raptor Lake chips ran hot, power-hungry, and had those infamous crashes<\/a>, while 2024\u2019s Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 285K had lackluster gaming performance<\/a> that the company has tried to address<\/a> with updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Intel claims it has finally surpassed both predecessors with \u201cIntel\u2019s fastest gaming desktop processors ever\u201d: the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26th.<\/p>\n

While we don\u2019t have every detail today, the company claims the 24-core, 5.5GHz turbo Core Ultra 7 270K Plus can beat both the Raptor Lake i9-14900K and the Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285K in gaming performance \u2014 and with 24 cores, 24 threads and a $300 price, it could compete favorably in productivity against AMD\u2019s Ryzen 7 9700X as well.<\/p>\n

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This is where enthusiasts will probably note that AMD\u2019s 9700X is nowhere near the most potent gaming chip that AMD makes<\/a>, and is also a year and a half old\u2026 but for $300 and nearly double the claimed multithreaded performance, the Intel chip may turn some heads when it comes to multithreaded workloads on a budget.<\/p>\n

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The 250K Plus may be a similar story at $200, with a claimed 103 percent better multicore performance on average than the similarly priced AMD 9600X.<\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s slidedeck doesn\u2019t actually show how much faster gaming performance might be compared to its previous flagship chips, let alone AMD\u2019s chips \u2014 instead, Intel compares the 270K Plus and 250K Plus directly to their immediate predecessors, the 265K and 245K, respectively.<\/p>\n

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There, gains can be quite modest at \u201cup to 4 percent\u201d in Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows, but also as much as 39 percent in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with a new Intel Binary Optimization Tool enabled, a \u201ca first-of-its-kind binary translation layer optimization capability that can improve native performance in select games.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other than the Binary Optimization Tool, Intel writes that the specific advancements here in Arrow Lake Refresh are four more efficiency cores, a 200MHz faster base clock on the P-cores and a 100MHz faster base-clock on the E-cores, a 900MHz faster link between the CPU and memory controller, support for DDR5 7200 MT\/s memory, and \u201cearly support\u201d for 4-rank CUDIMM memory modules, assuming your Intel 800-series motherboard supports those.<\/p>\n

Both chips still run at 125W TDP like their immediate predecessors; the 270K now has a base clock of 4.1GHz on the P-cores and 3.4GHz on the E-cores, while the 250K\u2019s clocks start at 4.4GHz and 3.7GHz respectively. The 250K has 30MB of Smart Cache, up from 24MB on the 245K, while the 270K still has 36MB.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntel Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop processors will maintain compatibility with all 800-series chipset motherboards currently on the market. New 800-series chipset motherboard models will be coming to market throughout 2026, including models that enable early support for 4-Rank CUDIMM memory,\u201d Intel\u2019s press release reads, adding that there will be a KF variant of the 250-series chip (without integrated graphics) as well.<\/p>\n

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Image: Intel<\/p>\n

Update, March 11th: Intel has clarified that the 250K will have a KF variant, but the 270K won\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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