Two things to focus on right away might be:
- Intel has dropped Hyper-Threading from all CPUs for the first time since (I believe) the pre-HT Pentium 4 era
- Intel is not showcasing TDP on this slide, though it is shown later in the presentation (it’s 250W for Core Ultra 9 and 7; 159W for Core Ultra 5)
Shall we over-react to these points briefly? Intel is making quite a play for efficiency here, highlighting the significant gains that Arrow Lake-S has made in that department compared to Rocket Lake-S in single-threaded workloads (a 2x improvement), but we will need to see numbers from a variety of workloads from independent reviewers before we make a final judgment on multi-core efficiency. The power numbers just aren’t that much lower overall, considering the new flagship still has a 250W PL1 and PL2 (down just 3W from Intel-defined Rocket Lake-S limits).
As to pricing, here is what Intel is calling the “Suggested eTail Price” (not a 1K tray price) for these new parts:
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K – $589 USD
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265K – $394 USD
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF – $379 USD
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245K – $309 USD
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF – $294 USD
And, if you are the type to buy flagship enthusiast CPUs and run them without a discrete GPU, here’s a slide about the Xe graphics found in the new Arrow Lake-S processors (except for the KF SKUs, of course):
