Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for ga
Published: January 01, 0001
We reported a couple [[link]] of weeks back on the slightly odd news that. Now Intel has slashed the price of two of the most gamer-friendly variants of its latest Arrow Lake desktop processor family by upwards of 25%.
Intel has . The 265K drops from $399 to $299, while the 265KF tumbles from $384 to $284.
Purely for gaming, there's very little between an Intel 265K or 265KF and the AMD 9700X, the latter perhaps being about 5% faster on average. Not enough, in other words, that you'd ever feel it.
However, with a total of 20 cores versus the 9700X's eight cores—albeit 16 threads with multithreading support on each core—the Intel chips are much faster for productivity tasks like video encoding.
In the past, we'd have still opted for the 9700X. It had the lower MSRP and was marginally faster for gaming. Now? I might, just might, go Intel.
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The 265K now has both the lower MSRP and lower street price, with the 265KF lower still, and I think in terms of future proofing with all those cores, they could be the better pick.
Indeed, . Yes, a lot of games still load most of the work onto a relatively small number of threads. But the tide is turning towards multithreading.
Still, with Intel's recent track record, going blue still feels like a bit of a gamble. The AMD chip is arguably the safer bet. Likewise, some question marks remain over the true efficacy of hybrid CPU architectures [[link]] for desktop PCs, as opposed to, say, smartphones where power efficiency is so important.
But with this price cut the Core Ultra 7 265K and 265KF certainly deserve to be taken very, very seriously indeed.
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