Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 Arrow Lake generation received mixed reviews despite the company significantly increasing the IPC of its E-cores over the previous generation, and massively gaining on the energy efficiency front, thanks to the new TSMC 3 nm node for the Compute tile, a node more advanced than even the TSMC 4 nm that AMD uses for its Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPU series. On its own, the new Lion Cove P-core is touted to offer an IPC increase over the previous Raptor Lake core, but it lacks support for Hyper-Threading, and since the CPU core counts haven't increased over the previous generation Raptor Lake, the overall thread count of the processor has reduced. With its 2026 refresh of Arrow Lake, Intel attempts to address this shortfall in thread counts by increasing core counts for the two new SKUs over the chips they are intended to replace.

techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus
techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-ultra-5-250k-plus

Intro: 0:00 - 0:44
4K Gaming: 0:44 - 1:48
1440p Gaming: 1:48 - 2:23
1080p Gaming: 2:23 - 3:23
720p Gaming: 3:23 - 4:23
Application Performance: 4:23 - 5:06
Power & Efficiency: 5:06 - 7:34
Performance Per Dollar: 7:34 - 9:34
Outro: 9:34 - 9:57


Ryzen 7 9850X3D
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Ryzen 9 9950X3D
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
Ryzen 9 9950X
Core i9-14900K
Core Ultra 9 285K
Ryzen 7 9700X
Core i7-14700K
Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
Core Ultra 7 265K
Ryzen 9 7950X
Ryzen 5 9600X
Core Ultra 5 245K