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Although retailer-exclusive and late-generation variants are common from AMD and Intel — we recently reviewed the Ryzen 5 5500F , for instance — they almost never fly completely under the radar, as is the case with the Core Ultra 7 260K. The chip itself is identical to the Core Ultra 7 265K based on the specs we know, fitted with 20 cores, eight of which are P-cores. The 260K tops out at 5.4 GHz, however, while the 265K reaches 5.5 GHz.
Otherwise, the specs are all the same. It comes with the same 125W TDP, same 30 MB of L3 cache, and same support for up to 256 GB of memory running at DDR5-6400. We only know of these specs from an image shown on the two ABS prebuilt listings available with the 260K. It's available in the ABS Kaze II paired with an RTX 5060 , as well as the Flux II Aqua with an RTX 5070 .
The image is below, captured hastily, as you can see, from a Microsoft Teams call. Again, we weren't able to find any information from Intel about the chip outside of this slide.
One critical detail this slide confirms is that the Core Ultra 7 260K belongs to the Arrow Lake family, not the range of Arrow Lake Refresh processors like the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus . It tops out at DDR5-6400, while Arrow Lake Refresh climbs up to DDR5-7200. That means the chip doesn't have access to the hardware-level enhancements available in Arrow Lake Refresh, nor the software-based Intel Binary Optimization Tool that boosts performance in select games.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/unannounced-intel-core-ultra-7-260k-cpu-surfaces-in-newegg-prebuilt-gaming-pcs-intel-doesnt-have-official-specs-list-available-for-exclusive-arrow-lake-chip#main
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