Intel Announces Core Ultra 200hx Plus Cpus For High-end Gaming Laptops

Intel has a brace of caller flagship CPUs coming to a assortment of pricey gaming laptops: nan Core Ultra 9 290 HX Plus and Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. The Arrow Lake Refresh chips athletics 24 cores / 24 threads and 20 cores / 20 threads, respectively. Like Intel’s recently announced desktop CPUs, nan caller Plus models for laptops are “pushed further for enthusiasts,” and besides characteristic nan Intel Binary Optimization Tool that tin amended autochthonal capacity “in prime games.”

Intel’s Josh Newman states that nan caller chips “deliver meaningful, real‑world capacity gains truthful users tin acquisition smoother gameplay, faster creation workflows, and much responsive workstation performance.”

There aren’t a ton of specifications truthful acold successful Intel’s reference materials (like nan capacity of nan 270HX Plus) but pinch what Intel claims is an 8 percent summation successful gaming performance, it’s only a humble summation for nan flagship 290HX Plus complete nan last-gen Core Ultra 9 285HX. For personification pinch a four-year-old processor for illustration nan “Alder Lake” Core i9-12900HX (16 cores / 24 threads), Intel claims a 62 percent uplift successful 1080p gaming connected precocious settings.

It’s a akin communicative pinch imaginative apps: Intel’s descent platform and charts declare nan 290HX Plus scores 7 percent higher than nan 285HX connected Cinebench 2026 azygous thread performance, and 30 percent higher than nan i9-12900HX.

Intel doesn’t person immoderate balanced tests aliases claims for nan Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus.

The 290HX Plus charts show trial results connected an MSI Titan 18, a gaming laptop costing astir $6,000. I reviewed nan Titan 18 pinch Intel’s 285HX spot and an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, and it was a formidable (if besides gigantic and outlandishly expensive) laptop for 4K gaming.

The caller Arrow Lake Refresh chips will besides person “up to 900MHz boost to nan die-to-die frequency” for reducing strategy latency by expanding nan velocity of nan CPU / representation controller link. There’s nary connection connected erstwhile caller laptops pinch nan 290HX Plus and 270HX Plus chips will launch, but Intel defers to OEMs for illustration Asus, Acer, MSI Alienware, Lenovo, HP, and Razer to motorboat caller models soon.