We’ve been busy testing two brand new CPUs from Intel: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus. These two lone chips amount to the entire Arrow Lake Refresh for gamers—something I had previously thought to be practically pointless. Yet Intel has done the unthinkable. Through dropping prices and severly undercutting its own products and, to some degree, AMD, it’s made two Arrow Lake chips that are actually worth their sand.
It’s a shock, I know, but join Dave and Jacob as they talk through Nick Evanson’s testing results and what this means for the gaming CPU market.
0:00 – Introduction
0:53 – Is Intel good again?
02:06 – Arrow Lake refresh specifications
04:22 – Competitive pricing
06:41 – Gaming performance
08:26 – Socket life
10:54 – Intel is back in the picture
14:21 – Consistency is crucial
16:44 – Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool
18:39 – AMD vs Intel
20:23 – Pre-build potential
21:43 – The first decent chip refresh
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