The Benchlife portal has published, as it claims, the final specifications of the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 2 (Arrow Lake-S) desktop processors. The only unknowns are the characteristics of the integrated Xe LPG graphics (Alchemist), which these chips will be equipped with.
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The announcement of Arrow Lake-S is expected on October 10, but the launch of the processors will take place on October 24, according to the latest unofficial reports. Initially, the start of sales was expected on October 17. Along with the processors, new motherboards based on the Intel Z890 chipset will be released. Earlier it was reported that Intel would oblige motherboard manufacturers to use “standard settings” for processor operating parameters by default. However, depending on the model, the boards will also support “extreme settings profiles”, but they will have to be enabled manually.
In October, Intel will release only overclockable processor models with the “K” suffix. Chips without the “K” suffix, as well as more affordable models of motherboards based on 800-series chipsets, will be presented later. Most likely, their announcement will take place in early January next year at the CES 2025 electronics exhibition.
The announcement and release of five Arrow Lake-S processor models is expected in October. The flagship Core Ultra 9 285K model will not receive a “KF” version without integrated graphics. The processor uses a combination of eight productive Lion Cove cores and 16 energy-efficient Skymont cores. The chip received 36 MB of L3 cache and 40 MB of L2 cache. The maximum processor frequency will be 5.7 GHz.
The mid-level model Core Ultra 7 265K (and its version without “built-in” 265KF) will offer eight productive and 12 energy-efficient cores, as well as 30 MB of L3 cache and 36 MB of L2 cache. The processor will be able to automatically accelerate to 5.5 GHz. In turn, the Core Ultra 5 245K and 245KF models will receive a configuration of six P-cores and eight E-cores, and will be able to automatically overclock to 5.2 GHz. The chip’s L3 and L2 cache volumes will be 24 and 20 MB, respectively. All expected processors will provide a nominal TDP of 125 W. The maximum power consumption for the Core Ultra 9 and Core Ultra 7 models will be 250 W, and for the Core Ultra 5 models – 159 W.
All Core Ultra 200K processors will receive support for Thermal Velocity Boost automatic overclocking technology. This feature is currently only available on Core Ultra 9 (formerly Core i9) models.