The Ryzen 9000s are out now, and you’ll know what we mean from our tests. Intel is going to respond by trying to turn the tables (and make people forget certain shortcomings). For the moment, Arrow Lake is keeping a low profile, Intel is getting very excited about its ultra-mobile Lunar Lake solution, but the next desktop CPUs are keeping a low profile. However, Arrow Lake-S processors are expected under the name Core Ultra 200 from October. However, we have an interesting leak of results from the next Core Ultra 7 265KF and Core Ultra 5 245K. Despite all this, it’s hard to get even an approximate idea of the potential of Intel’s next-generation processors.
The Core Ultra 7 265KF was therefore put through its paces in Geekbench 6 on a Gigabyte Z890 Aero G. This was an opportunity to judge the efficiency of its 8 performance cores and 12 efficiency cores (i.e. 20 threads, since Arrow Lake no longer supports hyper-threading). The boy scored 3,219 single-cores and 19,433 multi-cores in Geekbench 6. Points. This puts it ahead of the Core i9-14900K in single-core, but just behind the new Ryzen 9000. In the multicore benchmark, it rises to the level of the Core i7-14700K and is barely slower than the Ryzen 9 9900X with 24 threads.
As far as the Core Ultra 5 245K is concerned, Geekbench 5 would have been the place to catch a glimpse of it. This makes it more difficult to form an opinion. VideoCardz has published a table showing comparison values where the newcomer is almost on a par with the Core i9-13900K and outperforms the Core i5-14600K in multi-core… To be taken with a pinch of salt.
It’s hard to make up your mind at the moment. Some rumors suggest a very close duel with the new Ryzen 9000. If that’s the case, Intel would quickly be in trouble with the arrival of the X3D versions of the reds. But in reality, there are far too many uncertainties at the moment, and everything suggests that we’ll have to wait until October when Intel officially launches the Core Ultra 200 on the new LGA1851 socket.