An Intel Arrow Lake processor has already appeared in the Geekbench database, and we take a look.
All the excitement in the enthusiast scene lately has been aimed at AMD’s new Zen 5-based processors. That’s “Strix Point” for mobile, comprising the Ryzen AI 300 series, and then “Granite Ridge” for desktop, making up the Ryzen 9000 series, and both are launching soon—albeit not quite as soon as intended. However, many enthusiasts have been cautioning people not to jump on the AMD hype train too readily; after all, what will be Intel’s response?
The answer, at least on the desktop, is “Arrow Lake-S”, and today we have the first definite leak of the new chips. Thanks to the tearless retina of the Benchleaks bot, there’s a fresh benchmark there in the database of a “Core Ultra 7 265KF” processor, tested on a pre-release Maxsun iCraft Z890 Pacific motherboard.
