Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs

Processor models launched as refreshed Arrow Lake chips, core Ultra 5 250K Plus ($199) and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus ($299) are part of an Arrow Lake refresh.

Core counts increased compared with original Arrow Lake 200S processors, both Core Ultra 5 and 7 CPUs gain four additional E-cores.

Memory support officially increased supported DDR5 speed, intel increased official support from DDR5-6400 to DDR5-7200.

Power limits retain same official PL1 and PL2 values 270K Plus PL2 250 W and 250K Plus PL2 159 W; PL1 listed as 125 W for both.

Performance comparison offer strong multithreaded value against AMD at similar price, for heavy multi-threaded workloads, they outvalue AMD options at the same price according to the review.