Intel® Core Ultra 7 Processor 265K 30M Cache, up to 5.50 GHz

The Intel® Core Ultra 7 265K Arrow Lake forms the gateway to the enthusiast processor segment from team blue. With today's processor launches, the desktop segment enters a truly new generation of Intel® processors, which require a new Socket LGA1851 motherboard. The 265K succeeds a long line of desktop processors that had been considered flagship until the Core i9-9900K came along, bringing the Core i9 extension over from HEDTs. The "6" in the 265K shouldn't be odd, the Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge used this digit. The Core Ultra 7 265K squares off against the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X given its roughly-$400 pricing, but comparisons can also be made to the 9700X. The Core Ultra 7 265K retains the core configuration of its immediate predecessor?8P+12E, which means you get all eight Lion Cove performance cores present on the Arrow Lake-S silicon, and 12 out of 16 Skymont E-cores. A lot has been said about Skymont since its debut with the Lunar Lake mobile processor. Intel® has given this E-core a 50% generational leap in IPC over Crestmont, and more than 30% compared to the Gracemont cores in Raptor Lake, considering the moderately high clock-speeds, they should contribute in a big way to multithreaded productivity workloads that scale across all cores. Unlike on Lunar Lake, the Arrow Lake E-cores and P-cores sit on a common CPU complex, sharing a ringbus and an L3 cache. The 265K is configured with 30 MB L3 cache (a slight reduction from the 33 MB on the i7-14700K). Each of the 8 P-cores comes with 3 MB of dedicated L2 cache (a slight increase from the 2.5 MB of Raptor Cove P-Cores), while the E-cores, organized in clusters of 4 cores each, has 4 MB of it per cluster.