Game performance greatly improved! Intel officially releases Core Ultra 200S Plus

[ Gearbest Technology News]Recently, Intel released the Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop CPU series for the consumer market, focusing on improving price and performance in a budget-constrained market environment. The new series includes 250K Plus and 270K Plus products, priced at US$199 and US$299 respectively. According to the official statement, the 270K Plus can provide performance close to the previous generation high-end model 285K, and the latter is priced at US$589, which is nearly twice the price of the former.

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This new product is still based on the Arrow Lake Refresh architecture, but unlike previous refresh versions that mainly increased frequency, 200S Plus adds more cores and introduces new optimization technologies. The 270K Plus is equipped with 8 performance cores and 16 energy-efficiency cores, for a total of 24 cores; the 250K Plus is equipped with 6 performance cores and 12 energy-efficiency cores, for a total of 18 cores. Compared with the previous generation 265K and 245K, the two new processors have four more energy-efficiency cores, and their multi-tasking capabilities have been improved.

In addition to the core configuration, Intel has also increased the D2D clock by 900MHz. This indicator is related to the data transmission speed between different modules within the package. After improvement, it will help reduce the data transmission delay between the CPU core and the memory controller, thereby improving overall performance.

At the software level, Core Ultra 200S Plus introduces Intel binary optimization tool iBOT for the first time. This technology can reorganize x86 instructions in games and applications in real time to make them more suitable for the cache and pipeline structure of Intel CPUs to improve instruction processing efficiency. Official data shows that after turning on iBOT, the average frame rate of some games can be increased by up to 40%, and 1% low frame rate can be increased by 28%. In the Geekbench test, the single-core score increased by 6%, and the multi-core score increased by 2.7%.

Intel said that the recent growth in demand for AI infrastructure has led to a tightening of semiconductor supply, and the prices of PC-related components such as memory and SSD have also continued to rise. Against this background, 200S Plus is positioned as an enhanced version based on the existing product line, and is named “Plus” for the first time to distinguish it from a simple refreshed product.