Canadian retail store shopRBC has published prices on its website for five processors from the Intel Arrow Lake family. The cost of the top-of-the-line Core Ultra 9 285K chip was 852 Canadian dollars, which corresponds to 630 US dollars. This is consistent with another leak.
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Earlier, the prices of Intel Arrow Lake processors were briefly published by the British retailer LambdaTek. The senior model in the line, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, according to his version, will cost £471.83 ($630.64); Canadian store shopRBC priced the processor at 852 Canadian dollars ($630.6). The recommended retail price of the current flagship Intel Core i9-14900K at the start of sales was $589 – perhaps the top of the line Core Ultra 9 285K with an official release in the USA will cost the same.
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If you believe unofficial information, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, like its predecessor, has eight productive and 16 efficient cores on board. But gamers will likely opt for the more modest Core Ultra 5 245K, which shopRBC has a price tag of C$450 ($333.06). The chip boasts six P-cores with a base clock of 4.2 GHz and a peak clock of 5.0 GHz, as well as eight E-cores with a base clock of 3.6 GHz and 4.6 GHz in turbo mode – the optimal balance of performance and prices.
By now, quite a lot is known about Intel Arrow Lake processors from unofficial sources. They will use the same Lion Cove P and Skymont E cores as the Lunar Lake chips, but with an uncore configuration focused on high performance rather than maximum efficiency like mobile processors. Arrow Lake chips will have a more modest graphics subsystem, but an equally powerful NPU (artificial intelligence accelerator) is expected.