Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K is the first enthusiast desktop CPU with a built-in NPU, or a neural processing unit, for accelerating AI tasks. It’s also the first CPU that’s bui

The Core Ultra 9 285K processor excels in some areas but definitely not all. Tough competition from AMD and Intel's 14th-gen lineup leaves us wanting more.

While the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K at least represented a sizable boost in creative performance over the Core i9-14900K, the Core Ultra 5 245K doesn’t fare quite as well against its predecessor. While it is faster in multi-threaded workloads, it’s not much of an increase, which makes its slip in gaming performance even more disappointing.

The long-awaited Core Ultra Desktop Processors (Series 2) have finally hit the market, and we’ve gathered extensive performance data from three models: the

Officially, Intel recommends an MSRP between $309 and $319, with the first Core Ultra 5 245K listing selling for $328.99 at Newegg. It's technically slightly cheaper than the $319 to $329 launch MSRP of its last-gen counterpart, the Core i5-14600K, though it now sells for as low as $255 at Amazon.

Intel's Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 200S series processors for high-performance desktop systems have arrived and we've taken them for a spin around

It's worse than Raptor Lake in gaming but faster in some compute workloads—making it far from a slam-dunk upgrade for most.