Intel announces Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus, its ‘fastest gaming desktop processors ever’

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hopefully it’s finally leaving the i9-14900K in the dust. Hopefully it’s finally leaving the i9-14900K in the dust. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Intel hasn’t made it easy to buy a flagship desktop chip. The company’s 2022 and 2023 Raptor Lake chips ran hot, power-hungry, and had those infamous crashes, while 2024’s Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 285K had lackluster gaming performance that the company has tried to address with updates. Now, Intel claims it has finally surpassed both predecessors with “Intel’s fastest gaming desktop processors ever”: the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26th. While we don’t have every detail today, the company claims the 24-core, 5.5GHz turbo Core Ultra 7 270K Plus can beat both the Raptor Lake i9-14900K and the Arrow Lake Ul