[STEAM] Meet the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, a new 24-core Arrow Lake refresh gaming CPU, according to this benchmark leak

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It looks as though the wait for Intel's next lineup of gaming CPUs is nearly over, as we've just spotted a benchmark leak that not only reveals a new CPU brand name, but also some of the key specs. According to the leak, the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus offers a substantial boost in core count compared to its predecessor, the Core Ultra 7 265K, adding an extra four E-Cores to the package.

Those extra E-Cores won't make much difference to gaming performance, but they will give the chip an extra helping hand in multi-threaded workloads such as video encoding and 3D rendering. As we found in our

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, the strong points of the Intel Arrow Lake architecture are multi-threaded performance, as well as cool operation and power efficiency. Our recent

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also showed that

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has made up some lost ground in game benchmarks now too, although AMD's X3D chips are still well ahead.

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