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Intel Core Ultra 5 245K review: where Arrow Lake breaks down
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245K is a new CPU from Intel that has not impressed due to inconsistent performance and lack of gaming gains. This is despite the new Arrow Lake architecture on which it is built. It struggles with gaming performance and lags behind AMD competition and Intel's last-gen options in terms of value.
- The Core Ultra 5 245K has 14 cores split across six performance (P) cores and eight efficient (E) cores, with each core being more powerful. Cache has been reduced to save power, resulting in inconsistencies in gaming performance where more cache would have helped.
- Test configurations revealed that the Core Ultra 5 245K scales well with higher-speed memory and showed some improvements in certain applications. However, the CPU's performance was inconsistent in other tasks, even though it outclassed a current-gen CPU like the Ryzen 7 9700X in some workloads.
- The Core Ultra 5 245K failed at gaming, with inconsistent performance in graphically-intensive games like Final Fantasy XIV and Cyberpunk 2077. These issues make it difficult to justify a mid-range CPU in such a price range for gamers, especially as better performing alternatives are available from both Intel and AMD.
- The Core i5 14600K, which is cheaper and provides better gaming performance, is an alternative to the Core Ultra 5 245K. Intel's last-gen CPUs too offer more consistent performance across tasks, better than the new Arrow Lake CPUs.
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