While Intel has a lot going on in the laptop segment with Panther Lake, the desktop side doesn't have nearly as much to look forward to. Nova Lake isn't scheduled to arrive until next year, and for now, we have to make do with refreshed Arrow Lake processors. One of them, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus has just shown up on Geekbench.
It scores 3,205 and 22,206 in Geekbench 6.5's single and multi-core tests, respectively. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus has 24 cores (8 P + 16 E), 24 threads and a boost clock of 5.4 GHz. It powers an unspecified Lenovo PC with 48 GB of DDR5-7182 (DDR5-7200) RAM running Windows 11. Geekbench's back-end reveals it was tested alongside a GeForce RTX 5090 D, a China-only GPU.
Performance-wise, it is about 3% faster than the Core Ultra 7 265K, which averages at 3,085 in Geekbench's single-core test. In multi-core, the performance increment is about 7% faster compared to its Arrow Lake predecessor (20,581). While the Core Ultra 7 270K refresh isn't poised to bring much of a performance improvement over Arrow Lake, the above figures will likely get better after launch.
Regardless, it is far too early to comment on the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus' performance without additional benchmark data or knowing how much power it draws. The Geekbench listing does, however, confirm what Intel's Arrow Lake refresh will be called.
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