American retailer Newegg has started selling an exclusive Core Ultra 7 260K processor, which Intel did not formally present. As Tom’s Hardware has learned, the chip will be offered exclusively as part of prefabricated gaming PCs. A retail version is not expected.
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The chip belongs to the Arrow Lake-S series (not to be confused with the more recent Arrow Lake-S Refresh series) and differs from the previously released Core Ultra 7 265K model in only one thing – the maximum clock frequency for P-cores has been reduced by 100 MHz. The new processor is only capable of reaching 5.4 GHz, instead of the 5.5 GHz announced for the 265K model. Core Ultra 7 260K is equipped with 20 cores (8 P-cores and 12 E-cores). For P-cores, a base frequency of 3.9 GHz is declared. The processor has 30 MB of L3 cache and a nominal TDP of 125 W. Like the Core Ultra 7 265K, it supports installation of up to 256 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM.
The Intel Core Ultra 7 260K chip is announced only as part of gaming assemblies of the ABS brand (Newegg’s internal brand). In particular, it is offered in the ABS Kaze II Aqua PC with GeForce RTX 5060 and ABS Flux II Aqua with GeForce RTX 5070. Both configurations also have 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Intel itself, in a comment to the Tom’s Hardware portal, noted that the characteristics of the chip will appear in the database of its official website in the coming days.
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