Core Ultra 5 Is Pointless — Here’s Why

Intel wanted to send Leo a raft of budget processors to look at. And Leo has been pondering the meaning of life for a few weeks. Watch the video if you want to hear his thoughts, he comes to some interesting conclusions. Read more here: https://www.kitguru.net/components/cp... 00:00 Start 01:09 The processors and the (weird) pricing 03:52 Testing platforms and Intel’s strategy 06:21 Leo’s thoughts 08:27 A look at the 3 Core Ultra 5 processors 10:03 Cinebench 2024 Multicore 10:48 Cinebench 2024 Single Core 11:10 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core per £ of cost 11:48 CPU Power Consumption 12:16 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core Per Watt 12:48 Far Cry 6 (1080p) 13:46 Far Cry 6 (1440p) 14:20 Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora (1080p) 15:19 Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora (1440p) 16:00 Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p) 16:37 Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p) 17:10 So, what to think? What are Intel doing? 18:56 Charts with the Core Ultra 7 265k 20:39 Leo tries to come to a conclusion on a messy situation Pricing notes £545 Core Ultra 9 285K - better than the original £599 but meh £290 Core Ultra 7 265K - heavily discounted from £380 and better than ever £265 Core Ultra 7 265KF £250 Core Ultra 5 245K - slightly discounted from £290 but still too expensive £246 Core Ultra 5 235 - why so expensive? £215 Core Ultra 5 225F - slightly cheaper. ____________________________ £189-£215 Core i5-14600K £120 Core i5-14400F £680 Ryzen 9 9950X3D £560 Ryzen 9 9950X £435 Ryzen 7 9800X3D £295 Ryzen 7 9700X £199 Ryzen 5 9600X Test Systems: CPU – Intel Core Ultra 200S Motherboard – MSI MAG B860 Tomahawk WiFi Memory – 48GB G.Skill Trident Z5 CK CUDIMM DDR5-8200 CPU – Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake Motherboard – Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X Memory – 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DR5-6800 CPU – AMD Ryzen 9000 and 7000 Motherboard – MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi Memory – 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DR5-6000 Common components: Graphics Card – MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24GB and Intel Arc B580 12GB Storage – 1TB Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD CPU Cooler – Phanteks Glacier One 360D30 Power Supply – Seasonic Focus ATX3.1 GX-1000 Gold Operating System – Windows 11 24H2 We never offer affiliate links or take percentages of product sales. If we say the product is good or bad we mean it. Our Editor in chief wrote about why you should value this and how the industry is rife with fake reviews from 'influencers' - read here https://bit.ly/3pXzaw4 Buy our merch from here: https://kitgurutech.myspreadshop.co.uk Discord invite link:   / discord   Steam Community https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kit... Be sure to support us on PATREON   / kitgurutech   and read our MANTRA on HONEST REVIEWS Here: http://bit.ly/2BopnF9 Visit our facebook page over here!   / kitguru.net   Visit our Twitter page over here! https://twitter.com/kitgurupress?lang=en #ecs #tinypc #worldssmallest