Intel is said to be getting ready to release its Arrow Lake refresh, also known as 16th Gen, next month with at least three SKUs available at launch. One of them is the Core Ultra 250K Plus, the follow-up to the current Core Ultra 245K, featuring an enhanced core configuration and adjusted clock speeds. While benchmarks leaks have appeared for other ARL-R chips before, the 250K Plus has now appeared for the first time on Geekbench.
Most of the 245K results display a single-core score below 3,000, yet multi-core consistently falls between 17,000 and 18,000, indicating that the Core Ultra 250K Plus tested here led in one area but lagged in the Another. This leaked run was performed on an Asus Prime Z890-P WIFI motherboard with 32GB of RAM, and the processor reached up to 5.3 GHz during testing. That matches the previous leak from last year.
The Core Ultra 250K Plus is designed as an 18-core chip featuring 6 P-cores and 12 E-cores (up from 6P+8E on the 245K). It includes a 100 MHz rise in both core boost clocks, alongside a 100 MHz drop in the E-core base clock speeds. Like other Arrow Lake refresh chips, it supports native DDR5-7200 and will use the existing LGA 1851 socket, but new motherboards are in the works.
This will be Intel’s final push in the desktop segment until Nova Lake is slated to launch by year’s end, representing a genuine next-generation advancement akin to what Panther Lake achieved on mobile. Recently, prices and embargo dates for these ARL-R chips leaked out presented a highly appealing image, while confirming that the Core Ultra 9 SKU has been discontinued for this generation.
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