Summary:
Intel’s high-end model Core Ultra 7 270K The price of Plus fell below the US$200 mark for the first time, which means that the current entry threshold for this 24-core quasi-flagship processor has dropped to less than RMB 1,500. According to North American retailer Micro Center’s latest quotation shows that the current single price of Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is only US$199.99 (approximately RMB 1,418).
The initial release price of this processor was US$299 (approximately RMB 2,009). Later, the official suggested retail price was once raised to US$349 (approximately RMB 2,345). Based on this calculation, the actual reduction in this promotion is as high as US$150 (approximately RMB 1,008), a price reduction of nearly 43%.
In addition to the 270K Plus, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus of the same series has also dropped below US$140 (approximately RMB 993), and even the entry-level 10-core model Ultra 5 225F has fallen below the US$100 (approximately RMB 672) mark for the first time.
As for the domestic market, the price of Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is stable at around 2,249 yuan, the price of Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is stable at 1,539 yuan, and the price of Ultra 5 225F is 819 yuan.
In terms of hardware specifications, Core Ultra 7 270K Plus uses Intel LGA 1851 interface, which integrates 8 performance cores and 16 energy efficiency cores, with a total of 24 cores and 24 threads, and is equipped with a 40MB L2 cache and a 36MB L3 cache.
Currently in the price range of less than 200 US dollars, the 270K Plus is the only product on the market that can provide 24 physical cores, and although its positioning is lower than the Core Ultra 9 285K with the same core thread configuration, in actual game tests, the frame rate performance of the 270K Plus is more advantageous.
More importantly, the current price of Core Ultra 9 285K is still around US$500 (approximately RMB 3,546). The daily retail price of the current popular game processor Ryzen 7 7800X3D on the AMD AM5 platform is generally above US$300 (approximately RMB 2,016).
For players, they can get the same computing power or even better game performance at less than half the price, and the price-performance ratio is self-evident.
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