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Michael Justin Allen Sexton
PCMag
“For upending the desktop chip pricing bracket, the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus earns our Editors' Choice award for elite performance.”
Critical Assessment
What Critics Praise
- Great price for performance
- Strong gaming speeds
- Large core count (8P+16E)
- Competitive with Ryzen 9 processors
- Editors' Choice award
- Great pricing
Points of Contention
- Slower turbo clock than Ultra 9
- High power consumption
- High temperatures
- Late release
- Market hostility to enthusiasts
Professional Reviews
3 reviews from 3 critics70
Jake Roach
Tom's Hardware
“Although the Core Ultra 7 270K is a refresh by definition, it performs more like a reset.”
60
John Loeffler
IGN
“On paper, these are genuinely fantastic processors that offer some of the best multi-core performance you’re going to find outside of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper, especially for the price.”
