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Intel reveals its fastest gaming CPUs ever
12 Mar 2026

Intel has unveiled its latest desktop chips, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 7 250K Plus. The company claims these are its "fastest gaming desktop processors ever."

The new chips will be available from March 26.

The flagship model, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, features a whopping 24 cores and can reach turbo speeds of up to an impressive 5.5GHz.

The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus costs $300
Performance comparison

Intel claims that the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus outperforms both the Raptor Lake i9-14900K and the Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285K in terms of gaming performance.

The chip comes with a price tag of $300, making it a potential competitor for productivity against AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X.

The company also promises that its new chips will deliver better multicore performance on a budget.

Gains can be as high as 39% in some games
Gaming enhancements

Intel's new chips promise improved gaming performance over their immediate predecessors, the 265K and 245K.

The company claims gains can be as high as 39% in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with a new Intel Binary Optimization Tool enabled.

This tool is a "a first-of-its-kind binary translation layer optimization capability that can improve native performance in select games."

What else is new?
Tech specs

The new chips come with four more efficiency cores, a 200MHz faster base clock on the P-cores and a 100MHz faster base-clock on the E-cores.

They also have a 900MHz faster link between the CPU and memory controller, support for DDR5 7200 MT/s memory, and early support for 4-rank CUDIMM memory modules.

However, both chips still run at a TDP of 125W like their immediate predecessors.