Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus visits Geekbench 6 with four extra cores, leads 265K by 3.7% in multi-core performance
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake Refresh" has once again appeared on Geekbench, bringing forth similar results compared to previous leaks. With increased clock speeds and additional efficiency cores, the performance uplift from the Core Ultra 7 265K to the 270K Plus is unsurprisingly quite minor.
Core Ultra 7 270K Plus: A few more cores for a few extra points
To be more precise, the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus will feature a 24-core setup, consisting of 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores. Compared to its soon-to-be predecessor, the 265K, the 270K clearly packs an additional 4 efficiency cores with a 100 MHz higher base and boost clock, according to industry murmurs. The test bench was equipped with a Gigabyte Z890 Eagle motherboard (currently $210 on Amazon), and the processor was paired with 64 GB of DDR5-4800 memory.
The Geekbench 5 result reveals that the 24-core Core Ultra 7 270K Plus managed to score 21,368 points in the multi-core department, and 3,235 points in single-core. To put that into perspective, the 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K scores around 3,065 and 20,613 points in single and multi-core respectively, indicating a small but noticeable bump in performance - roughly 5.5% in SC and 3.7% in MC. With faster memory and further tuning, the Arrow Lake Refresh chips will likely boast a higher performance improvement.
Considering that next-generation Nova Lake desktop CPUs from Intel are not expected anytime soon, those looking to build a new Intel-based PC will have no choice but to settle for the marginal improvements expected from Arrow Lake Refresh. Considering the skyrocketing DRAM prices, building a new PC in 2026 sure does appear to be quite the financial commitment.
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Geekbench, spotted by TechPowerUp
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