Intel Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs Debut: More Cores, Faster Clocks, Better Gaming

If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gaming performance lift compared to Intel's previous generation chips. Well, fair enough, but Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus series processors have just arrived, and they may indeed address those concerns.

Yes, today is the day for the long-rumored Arrow Lake Refresh, although it's not quite a full series refresh like AMD's recently-launched Gorgon Point processors or the 14th-generation Core CPUs. In fact, there are just four new chips available today: the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, as well as KF variants without integrated graphics.

These two parts will slot into existing 800-series motherboards; there aren't any new chipsets on the way, although there ...