Intel quietly launches the Core Ultra 7 260K with 20 cores, available only in prebuilt systems. - KuCoin
Intel has quietly launched the Core Ultra 7 260K processor, a 20-core chip that is exclusively sold pre-installed in ABS-branded systems.
The new processor is part of the original Arrow Lake series, not the newer Arrow Lake Refresh series. It features 20 physical cores, including 8 Performance Cores (P-Cores) and 12 Efficient Cores (E-Cores). The P-Cores have a base frequency of 3.9 GHz and a maximum turbo frequency of 5.4 GHz. The processor is equipped with 30 MB of L3 cache and supports up to 256 GB of DDR5-6400 memory.
The Core Ultra 7 260K is a limited-availability SKU and will not be sold separately as a retail boxed processor. Systems equipped with this CPU are now available on Newegg. The processor is exclusively sold pre-installed in ABS-branded systems. Intel has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that this is a platform-exclusive model.
This is a limited-availability SKU and will not be sold separately as a retail boxed processor.
The specifications for the Core Ultra 7 260K are expected to be announced in the coming days. There are currently inconsistencies in the retail page specifications. Intel’s official specifications list the maximum turbo frequency of the 260K as 5.4 GHz, but some Newegg product pages list it as 5.2 GHz. Certain configuration options refer to it as the U7-260KF, differing from the 260K designation on the full product page.
The main difference between the Core Ultra 7 260K and the existing Core Ultra 7 265K is the maximum turbo frequency. The 265K has a maximum turbo frequency of 5.5 GHz, which is 100 MHz higher than the 260K. Both processors have nearly identical core counts, cache capacities, base frequencies, and memory support specifications.
The Core Ultra 7 260K is currently available in two ABS gaming desktops: the ABS Kaze II with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, and the ABS Flux II Aqua with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. Both systems come equipped with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.
No independent performance tests have been conducted on the Core Ultra 7 260K yet, so its actual performance cannot be confirmed at this time. Based on known specifications, the processor's performance is expected to be similar to that of the Core Ultra 7 265K. The Arrow Lake Refresh processors support up to DDR5-7200 memory and introduce hardware improvements along with the Intel Binary Optimization Tool software optimization feature.
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