Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S Tested: Competitively Priced With Creator Performance (hothardware.com) 6
MojoKid writes: Intel has lifted the embargo on independent reviews of its new Core Ultra 200S series Arrow Lake-S processors, which mark a shift in its desktop CPU strategy with symmetrical core/thread counts (no Hyperthreading) and a dedicated 13 TOPS NPU. This series features a disaggregated tiled design for the first time in Intel's desktop chips, focusing on efficiency and power reduction. The Core Ultra 5 245, priced around $300, and the Ultra 9 285K at $589 deliver strong performance, particularly in creator workloads, competing well with AMD's Ryzen CPUs, while the Ultra 9 285K's price undercuts AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X significantly. While gaming performance shows slight regression in spots, the new chips are much more power-efficient than their predecessors. Overall, the platform offers leading-edge features, competitive pricing, and solid performance for creators, gamers and workstation pros.
It's a mess (Score:3)
Just watch the GN review. Arrow Lake was not ready for release.
Intel Ultra 9 285K preliminary review -- Mixed bag (Score:2)
Here's an initial review by Techspot. It's no world beater at the price.
https://www.techspot.com/review/2911-intel-core-ultra-9-285k/
Slashvertisement (Score:2)
Intel is in for some rough times. They need to please Wall Street with the massive layoffs and firings but that's going to cause all sorts of problems. They won't be able to keep up and it's not like those engineers are going to commit sepaku they're going to go work for competitors.
Intel and Nvidia both for years
You might say... (Score:2)
HotHardware.com: "These are the best free Intel processors we've received in the mail all week and we can find no fault because we like free stuff"
On the other hand, Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed have found many of the faults and aren't afraid to report them.
The fine summary (Score:2)
Is it just me or does the summary read just like it was written by an LLM?
Re: (Score:2)
It reads like it was written by an Intel shill.