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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Official Benchmarks: Faster Than 14900K & Comparable To Ryzen X In Gaming, Much Faster In Apps, Superb Value

By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 23, 2026 | CPU, Hardware, Intel, x86
The Hot Take: I'm wondering if Intel is holding out on the 290K to drop after AMD's price drops in response to these chips. They're getting good response from what I've been seeing.

Intel has shared official benchmarks of its Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus in gaming, apps, and more, against AMD Ryzen CPUs. Core Ultra 200S Plus Are Now The Fastest Gaming CPUs From Intel, Surpassing the Core i9-14900K. For performance comparisons, Intel is pitting the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus against the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus against the Ryzen 5 9600X. Both of these CPUs are valid comparisons based on their prices. The company also compares the performance against existing Core Ultra 200S "Non Plus"…

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Zen 6 Benchmark Leak Hints At Major IPC Gains For AMD's Next-Gen Chips

By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 19, 2026 | AMD, Hardware, x86
The Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.

When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like

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