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.

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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.
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£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

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