Quote:Intel Arrow Lake Refresh official, but there’s no 290K Plus



Today Intel is announcing its Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop series, adding four new unlocked SKUs to the Arrow Lake-S lineup. The launch includes the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 270KF Plus, alongside the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and 250KF Plus. Intel says the new chips bring more efficiency cores, higher die-to-die frequency, faster official memory support, and a new software layer called Intel Binary Optimization Tool.

4 more cores, 900 MHz+, and a 15% performance claim



The main hardware change is core count. Core Ultra 7 270K Plus moves to 24 cores in an 8P+16E configuration, while Core Ultra 5 250K Plus moves to 18 cores with 6P+12E. Intel also says die-to-die frequency is up by as much as 900 MHz over the Core Ultra 7 265K and Core Ultra 5 245K, which it says improves CPU and memory controller communication and lowers latency.

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