Just a month is left before the release of the Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake” Desktop CPUs, and their detailed specs are now official. According to them, the first launch is planned for five SKUs of the unlocked “K”-series chips. The new date is October 24 instead of the previously projected October 17 due to a one-week late start of production.
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Benchlife has details of the final specs for 5 of these SKUs: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K, Core Ultra 7 265KF, Core Ultra 5 245K and Core Ultra 5 245KF. This will include only five SKUs in total, as there is no KF option for the Core Ultra 9 285K. The Core Ultra 9 285K will be the flagship model, housing an amalgam of eight P-cores built on Lion Cove architecture and sixteen E-cores derived from Skymont architecture.
It will have 24 threads along with 36 MB of L3 and 40 MB of L2 cache, bringing the total to an impressive 76MB of unified cache. The base clocks for those cores are 3.7 GHz for P-cores and 3.2 GHz for E-cores while the chips can boost up to 5.7 GHz and 4.6 GHz for these two core groups, respectively. As for the CPU, it doubles its PL1 TDP to 125W and increases its MTP to 250W.
It appears that the Core Ultra 7 265K may have 8 P-cores and 12 E-cores for a total of 20 cores, all with hyperthreading accruing to 20 threads. This will consist of 36 MB L2 and 30 MB L3, for a total cache size of 66 MB. Those P-cores run at a 3.9 GHz base and up to 5.5 GHz boost, while the E-cores are clocked at a 3.3 GHz base and 4.6 GHz boost.
This chip will similarly offer a TDP of 125W PL1 and up to 250W PL2. The Core Ultra 5 245K offers 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores by giving it a count of 14 cores/14 threads. It will feature 24 MB of L3 cache and 26 MB of L2 cache for a total of 50 MB. Base clocks are set at 4.2 GHz for P-cores and 3.6 GHz for E-cores, with boost clocks up to 5.2 GHz and 4.6 GHz. Only the 265K and 245K models will have KF variants.
The new Arrow Lake CPUs will come with Xe-LPG-based integrated graphics for the K variants, while the KF variants will require discrete GPUs for display output. Intel is expected to release non-K models and budget Intel 800-chipset motherboards in early 2025. These new CPUs promise improved real-world power consumption and stability over previous generations. The launch will also introduce the Z890 chipset motherboards, which will bring significant changes to memory configurations.
