Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 200S CPU Preview
Introduction
Introduction
If you’ve been around these hallowed halls you’ll be aware of two main things about the Intel 14th Generation processors. Firstly, that they are incredibly fast. The i9-14900KS in particular is befitting of its flagship status. Secondly, and a little less pleasurably, it’s toasty. If it was any toastier it would be actual toast. We’ve tried it with some of the beefiest cooling solutions on the market, true money-no-object stuff. Still we regularly saw 90°C. Undervolting is the solution to this, and we wrote a handy guide you can read here.
We understand though that not everyone wants to play with their BIOS, even with a simple guide. That’s fine. Computers cost a lot of money and warranties are stern. What you, and we, really need then is a more efficient processor. One that brings all the performance we love from the Core i9 14th Gen, but doesn’t heat up the planet. Intel clearly thought so too.
Enter the Intel Core Ultra processors. As you’ll see on the next page it’s clear that the watchword for this release is efficiency. The press-briefing was all about efficiency. All of the literature mentions it. Less power equals less heat. Less heat is what the Intel Core range is crying out for. But why tell you when we can show you the models that are available below, and on the next page the important highlights of the feature set. Onwards to glory.
Technical Specifications
We’ve spent so long with the naming convention being “generation plus number” that the Ultra 200S series comes as something of a shock. Instead of the flagship being the Core i9-15900K it’s the Core Ultra 9 285K. There are V versions of these, for mobiles and laptops, but these are the desktop models. As you can see they largely ape the core-count and thread numbers of current Intel products. AI is a large component with NPU – Neural Processing Unit – cores found on all the processors.
If you like more serious number breakdowns, or merely an idea of the number of PCI lanes, this table has all the information you require. We’ll be showing you which processors we have on the 3rd page of this.