Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus

For gaming-only systems, AMD still looks like the safer bet if absolute peak frame-rate leadership is the goal. But for users who want a broader desktop processor, one that can game well, create well, multitask well, and sit inside a modern feature-packed platform, Intel’s Core Ultra 200S Plus refresh is a definietly a step forward. It fixes enough, improves enough, and refines enough to make these processors far easier to recommend than the first wave.

Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus boosts gaming performance over its "Arrow Lake" predecessor at a price that's hard to pass up. It's not the fastest gaming CPU around, but no other chip goes as hard for so little money.

Un salto que es muy evidente en el aumento de núcleos, prácticamente subiendo al escalón superior de la anterior generación, porque en este modelo de gama media llegamos a os 18 núcleos, lo que supone un aumento de rendimiento bruto que casi duplica al Ryzen directo el Ryzen 5 9600X.

Don't be fooled by the $199 price tag. The Core Ultra 5 250K Plus might look like a budget processor, but it performs like an Ultra 7 class chip, and there's nothing to touch it for the money. That said, the Core Ultra 7 265K isn't that much more expensive, and it is the better chip for content creation tasks.

The Core Ultra 200S Plus chips will benefit PC gamers who can afford higher-speed RAM right now, while the optimistic Binary Optimization Tool should provide more granular, per-game boosts over future updates. Otherwise, these two CPUs are an incredible deal for content creators who moonlight as gamers. Both are phenomenal performance-per-dollar offerings that finally make LGA 1851 motherboards look more appealing, but dedicated gamers will likely remain "red".

The new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus do just that. They offer compelling choices at the $199 and $299 price points, respectively, so much so that AMD may no longer be the default go-to for people wanting to spend that amount of money on a desktop CPU.

The Intel Core Ultra Plus processors are what the original LGA1851 models should have been. More energy efficient than the models they replace, more affordable thanks to the “waterfalling” of core counts. Intel Binary Optimisation Tool improves performance in many applications and is supremely easy to install and access thanks to the unified Intel Platform Performance Package.