Intel Core Ultra CPUs (Arrow Lake) are now available

[Jim Roseberry]

Core Ultra 9 285K (not currently in-stock)

• 8 Performance cores
• 16 Efficient cores
• 24 Processing Threads
• 5.7GHz Max Turbo

 

Core Ultra 7 265K

• 8 Performance cores
• 12 Efficient cores
• 20 Processing Threads
• 5.5GHz Max Turbo

 

 Core Ultra 5 245K

• 6 Performance cores
• 8 Efficient cores
• 14 Processing Threads
• 5.2GHz Max Turbo

 

Performance gain vs 14th Gen is ~13%... but TDP is lower.

AMD's 9950x is ~4% faster than the Core Ultra 9 285K.

 

Some mid-tier Z890 motherboards come with useful additional features.

• Four M.2 slots
• Integrated Thunderbolt-4 port

 

Nothing mind-blowing... but definitely a step in the right direction.

With removal of Hyper-Threading, I was wondering if performance would decline (vs 14th Gen).

Glad to say that's not the case.