Intel's purported Arrow Lake destktop refresh leaks out — Three SKUs with improved clocks and more E-Cores
Intel's Panther Lake Core Ultra X9 388H beats out AMD Strix Halo in early Geekbench single-threaded results
The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus scored 3,235 points in the single-core test and 21,368 points in the multi-core test. Tallying that with the average scores on Geekbench and you can see those results beat out the Core Ultra 7 265K by 5.6% and 4.2%, respectively and that's despite using slow memory. The test was conducted on a Gigabyte Z890 Eagle WiFi7 motherboard outfitted with 64 GB of 4800 MT/s DDR5, so you can expect just a bit more juice with even faster RAM.
Those numbers are decent and these processors will launch on the current-gen LGA 1851 socket, so it can be a drop-in upgrade for many, though it won't make sense if you're already on 14/15th Gen. At least Intel is still maintaining the "Core Ultra 200" naming scheme to indicate it's not a true next-gen product. It's hard to imagine this release stirring up the market in any way, especially with how dominant AMD is right now, so it's best to consider the Arrow Lake refresh as a stopgap till Nova Lake surfaces.
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