Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus Review
What’s New?
What’s New?
A very ‘at a glance’ overview of the two launch processors. An i7, well Intel Core Ultra 7, with 24 cores. It doesn’t feel that long ago an i7 having six cores was cause for celebration. How fast things change in the hardware world. Even the Ultra 5 is no slouch in the core department.
Intel aren’t shy in making clear their target. The Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is priced to match the AMD Ryzen 9600X, whilst the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is aimed squarely at the popular AMD Ryzen 9700X. We’ll find out soon enough how they compare in both creative and gaming tasks.
If you know your onions, or really love the deep dives then the next two slides are for you. We’ve always been most interested in the end user experience. However, as we said in our intro the Intel Platform Performance Package is their one stop shop to ensure all users have a full suite of utilities, drivers and applications available. Including the Intel Binary Optimisation Tool that we’ll discuss more in a couple of slides time.
If you’ll forgive us paraphrasing SSX Tricky, tweaks equal boost, boost equals speed.
The IBOT is one of the headlines features on the Intel Ultra Plus processors. We won’t pretend we fully understand how it works – not having PHDs in engineering – but our grasp is that at streamlines code at a hardware level to maximise each clock tick and thus overall performance. This is going to be benchmarked at the end of this review.
You might think that creative tasks aren’t in your sphere. You just game. We will remind you that watching YT in your browser utilises more of your system than you might imagine. Editing a picture quickly, recording a little gaming footage, even just chilling with a podcast whilst playing a 4X all leverage the creative capabilities of the CPU.
