This month I have been: mostly testing Intel's new Arrow Lake Refresh chips, but I've also been checking out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. I've been despondently staring at DRAM prices in the vain hope that I'll stumble across an affordable 64 GB kit to update my video editing rig.
As with any new piece of PC technology, months of leaks and rumours ensured that Intel's launch of its Core Ultra 200S processors wasn't especially surprising. More cores, higher clock speeds, and lower price tags. But once I put the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus chips through our battery of benchmarks, I honestly couldn't believe how good they were, especially in light of them being refreshes of CPUs that had so disappointed me back in October 2024.
