Intel announces Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus, its ‘fastest gaming desktop processors ever’
By Sean Hollister
Published on March 11, 2026.
Intel has announced the launch of its Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus, its ‘fastest gaming desktop processors ever’. The company claims the 24-core, 5.5GHz turbo Core Ultra 7270K Plus can beat both Raptor Lake i9-14900K and the Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285K in gaming performance, and with its $300 price, it could compete favorably against AMD’s AMD”s Ryzen 7 9700X. The 250K has a claimed 103 percent better multicore performance on average than the similarly priced AMD 9600X. Other notable advancements include four more efficiency cores, a 200MHz faster base clock on the P-cores, a 900MHz faster link between the CPU and memory controller, support for DDR5 7200 MT/s memory, and early support for 4-rank CUD
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