The Core Ultra 200S series arrive on October 24th, with a focus on performance per watt and a built-in NPU. Intel have finally agreed how hot and power usage it’s desktop CPUs have become. Intel New Flagship Core Ultra 200S Series CPUs are arriving on 24th October, mainly focused on performance per watt to run efficient and cooler than the previous 14th Gen CPUs. Described as Arrow Lake S (Codenamed), these are Intel’s first performance CPUs with a built in NPU section, or Neural Processing Unit, to do more AI tasks.
According to big tech enthusiasts this Arrow Lake will delivery Intel’s best performance ever. It will deliver more power with significantly lower power levels than other previous generations of Intel CPUs.
With Arrow Lake architecture Intel have put big efforts in terms of reducing the power draw from its chips. Because previous 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core CPU generations were power-hungry, often drawing much power than their AMD equivalents. New Core Ultra 200S series chips will halve the power consumption when doing basis tasks. Users will see half the power consumption at the desktops. But with gaming it’s going to be up or down, 150 to 50 watts depending on the title and behavior.
During recent press briefing, Intel demonstrated Assassin’s Creed Mirage running on its flagship Core Ultra 9 285K compared to its current Core i9-14900K. The Ultra 9 285K delivers similar or even better performance running at 80 watts. Intel is claiming that it will reduce the power usage up to 58 watts in many games like, Total War: Pharaoh and F1 24. In some rare cases Ultra 9 285K even runs at 165 watts less than the 14900K.
The Ultra 9 285K will feature a setup of eight high-performance cores (P-cores) and 16 high-efficiency cores (E-cores). These E-cores are now optimized for better power efficiency and faster instruction processing, with improvements that even lower latency. The processor will include a 36MB L3 shared cache and increased L2 cache—3MB per P-core (up from 2MB in the 14th Gen) and 4MB per E-core. According to Intel, this results in about an 8% boost in single-thread performance and around a 15% gain in multi-threaded tasks compared to the 14900K, promising a noticeable step up in speed and responsiveness for demanding workloads.
Intel has shared some early gaming benchmarks for the Ultra 9 285K, comparing it to AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. The data shows Intel’s newest flagship competing closely with AMD’s top Zen 5 desktop CPU, though it’s clear that on the X3D side, it still falls short. Intel is also notably candid in acknowledging that it currently trails behind the leading gaming CPU, AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
A new LGA-1851 Socket structure also means new motherboards. Now you will need a new Z890 board to use the Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs. Intel’s 800 series chipset offers support for up to 24 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 8 SATA 3.0 ports, and 32 USB 3.2 ports. Overall, the platform can handle up to 48 PCIe lanes, including up to 20 Gen 5 lanes directly from the CPU, providing a versatile and high-speed connectivity setup for demanding builds. There also will be integrated Wi-Fi 6E and 1GbE, Bluetooth 5.3 and 2x Thunderbolt 4 on the CPU, and motherboard manufacturers can integrate additional features such as Wi-Fi 7, up to four Thunderbolt 5 ports, 2.5Gb Ethernet, and Bluetooth 5.4, offering users a range of cutting-edge connectivity options.
Intel is enhancing memory support with the Core Ultra 200S series and Z890 motherboards, which now support up to DDR5-6400, with capacities of up to 48GB per DIMM and a maximum capacity of 192GB. The 800 series chipset will no longer supports DDR4 RAM. These Chips are also Secure Core compliant and include three dedicated hardware engines for enhanced security.
With LGA-1851 socket it’s not clear how long it will last, but AMD has announced to support AM5 socket till 2027 or beyond, but Intel is refusing to comment on future product plans. The 13th and 14th Gen chips the instability issues have been resolved now, with a too-high voltage issue as the root cause. These new upcoming Core Ultra 200S series chips won’t be impacted by the Raptor Lake voltage problems.
Intel New Core Ultra 200s Chips series the Core Ultra 9 285K will priced at $589, the Core Ultra 7 265K at $394, and the Core Ultra 5 245K at $309. Intel is also releasing KF versions without integrated graphics, with the Ultra 7 265KF priced at $379 and the Ultra 5 245KF at $294. Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S chips will start shipping on October 24th.
Intel Core Ultra Processors SKUs
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