As expected,Intel Officially launched today Core Ultra 200S Plus (Arrow Lake Refresh) series desktop typeprocessor, and as rumored, the flagship Ultra 9 model does not become an Ultra 7 model. What’s more noteworthy is that the recommended selling price this time is cheaper than the previous generation. In this era of increasingly expensive computer hardware, this is really good news for gamers.
What are the Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus series? When will it be launched?
There are two types of Core Ultra 200S Plus series launched by Intel this time, namely “Core Ultra 7 270K Plus” and “Core Ultra 5 250K Plus”. The following is a comparison of the specifications with the previous generation:
Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Core Ultra 7 265K
- 24 cores (8P+16E) vs 20 cores (8P+12E)
- Overclocked clocks are all 5.5GHz
- E-core overclocked clock 4.7GHz vs 4.6GHz
- L3 cache 36MB vs 30MB
- L2 cache 40MB vs 36MB
- D2D 3.0GHz vs 2.1GHz
- Memory DDR5 7200 MT/s vs 6400 MT/s
- MTP are all 250W
- Starting MSRP $299 vs $394
Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs Core Ultra 5 245K
- 18 cores (6P+12E) vs 14 cores (6P+8E)
- Overclocked clock 5.3GHz vs 5.2GHz
- E-core overclocking clocks are all 4.6GHz
- L3 cache 30MB vs 24MB
- L2 cache 36MB vs 26MB
- D2D 3.0GHz vs 2.1GHz
- Memory DDR5 7200 MT/s vs 6400 MT/s
- MTP is 159W
- Starting MSRP $199 vs $309
From the above comparison, it can be clearly seen that this time the Core Ultra 200S Plus series not only has increased E-core, improved clock speed, larger cache, but also has a much cheaper starting recommended price, which looks really good. But you also need to know that when Arrow Lake was first released, the starting recommended selling price was already on the high side, and Intel has gradually lowered it since then.
The two processors are expected to be officially launched on March 26 through cooperative retail channels.
Intel also launched a new Binary Optimization Tool, which uses Intel’s compiler and performance analysis technology to optimize the running efficiency of libraries and executable files, and ensures that no work is missed during the optimization process, further improving performance:
How different is the performance from the previous generation and competitors?
There is no change in the architecture. It is still the LGA 1851 platform. Let’s look directly at the performance test data shared by Intel.
In the actual test of 6 games, Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was all ahead of the previous generation Core Ultra 7 265K, with an average of 15%. Among them, “Tomb Raider: Shadow” increased by 39%, and “Assassin’s Quest 3” also had a 22% increase:
Core Ultra 5 250K Plus also increased by 13% on average, and “Far Cry 6” had the highest increase of 24%:
Intel also shared performance difference data with its competitors AMD 9700X and AMD 9600X. In the 4 multi-core tests, the average improvement was 2 times, which is really impressive:
Source: KOCPC Chinese