New benchmark shows the upcoming mid-range Arrow Lake Refresh chip is even faster than we previously expected.
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Delivers 4,955 Points in Single and 53,561 Points in Multi-Threaded Tests in PassMark
We hope that the Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs do better than we expect, since the current Arrow Lake CPU stack doesn't have a great appeal. One of the Intel Arrow Lake Refresh SKUs was spotted on PassMark for the first time a few days ago, and it was delivering some promising uplifts over its predecessor. While the gaming performance remains in the shadows, the new chip does bring a good boost in multi-threaded performance.
Here we are talking about the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, which is the new mid-range CPU in the refreshed lineup, featuring four additional E-Cores vs the Core Ultra 5 245K. This takes its core configuration from 14-core to 18-core. In the previous test, the 250K Plus delivered nearly 16% higher multi-threaded performance vs the Ultra 5 245K. It was already impressive, but the latest benchmark of another sample bumped up the scores even higher.
As spotted by @x86deadandback, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus delivered 53,561 points in the multi-threaded PassMark test, bringing a nearly 6% improvement over the previous sample. Single-threaded performance has also increased by 2%. While the uplift isn’t as impressive as expected, it could change as more samples are added, resulting in a more accurate geomean. Currently, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus has an average MT score of 52,020 points, which is 11.4% lower than the 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K and nearly 20% higher than the MT performance of Core Ultra 5 245K.
We also witnessed that the Samsung-based DDR5 RAM is supposedly faster than the Crucial one despite having the same frequency. The difference isn't huge, but a 6% improvement definitely puts Samsung-based DDR5 RAM ahead. It appears that the setup belongs to the same user, considering both have identical specifications, including the motherboard and monitor. Nonetheless, we are soon going to see the real capabilities of Ultra 5 250K Plus and its bigger sibling, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, this month.
News Source: PassMark
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