Geekbench results appear for the Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 7 265K, showing an increase in performance over the Core i9 14900K.

MSI's new Z890 MPG Carbon motherboard leaked, ready for Intel's new Core Ultra 200 series 'Arrow Lake' CPUs: will feature dual Thunderbolt ports.

Five models will be offered initially, all using the new "Core Ultra" nomenclature already seen with Intel's Meteor Lake laptop CPUs. The top chip is the Core Ultra 9 285K. It sports eight Performance and 16 Efficient cores, but no HyperThreading, so the thread count is the same as the overall core count.

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Hong Kong media outlet HKEPC claims that Intel's Core Ultra 200-series desktop CPUs will be delayed until late October.

Core Ultra 200 series CPU specifications have been purportedly finalized. Five SKUs will debut on launch day. Core counts remain the same, but clock speeds are dropping compared to Raptor Lake Refresh.

Leaked specs include Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, Intel Core Ultra 7 265K, Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF, Intel Core Ultra 5 245K, and Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF models. t has been said that Intel could launch at least 16 variants in the Core Ultra 200 series but these five are now expected to arrive on October 24.