[STEAM] Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review: another skippable CPU series

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Regardless of whether Intel would say it out loud, the

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both represent an attempt to right the wrongs of the original Arrow Lake/

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family. That bundle of chips was, necessarily, more power-efficient and cooler-running than the hotheaded

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models before them, though this came at the cost of

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. Rarely a desirable quality in a

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, that.

These two Core Ultra 200S Plus (or Arrow Lake Refresh) processors do, in comparison, achieve some appeal. They’re inexpensive and excellent multitaskers, and while they do still have efficiency on their silicon brains, Intel have looked to bump game speeds back up by rejigging their innards into a less latency-prone layout.

Alas, it’s not enough. Not only are Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus slower in games than AMD’s best chips, they once again fail to convincingly outpace Intel’s own back catalogue – the 2023 vintage 14th gen processors, included.

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