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Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus

Core Ultra 200S PlusReleased March 23, 2026Launch price $200 (as reported by Tom's Hardware)

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Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core2,775points#11 of 16 Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core21,849points#9 of 16 Cinebench 2024 Multi-core1,860points#9 of 17 Counter-Strike 2 1080p Ultra617fps#14 of 17

Eighteen cores (6 performance, 12 efficient) at a budget price: far ahead of six-core Ryzen 5 chips in rendering and other multi-threaded work, and trading wins with the Ryzen 5 9600X in games. A strong pick for a budget creator or streaming build on a B860 board.

Against the line-up

Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core · points

#11 of 16 · Geekbench Browser
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D23,163
  2. 2Ryzen 7 9850X3D3,122
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D3,058
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3,048
  5. 10Core Ultra 9 285K2,832
  6. 11Core Ultra 5 250K Plus2,775
  7. 12Core Ultra 7 265K2,717

Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core · points

#9 of 16 · Geekbench Browser
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D228,167
  2. 2Core Ultra 7 270K Plus27,402
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D26,572
  4. 4Core Ultra 9 285K25,837
  5. 8Core i9-14900K21,933
  6. 9Core Ultra 5 250K Plus21,849
  7. 10Ryzen 9 9900X3D20,325

Cinebench 2024 Multi-core · points

#9 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D22,529
  2. 2Core Ultra 7 270K Plus2,509
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D2,423
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X2,344
  5. 8Ryzen 9 9900X3D1,870
  6. 9Core Ultra 5 250K Plus1,860
  7. 10Ryzen 9 9900X1,851

Counter-Strike 2 1080p Ultra · fps

#14 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 7 9850X3D758
  2. 2Ryzen 9 9950X3D742
  3. 3Ryzen 7 9800X3D736
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3D2732
  5. 13Core Ultra 9 285K627
  6. 14Core Ultra 5 250K Plus617
  7. 15Core Ultra 7 265K610

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p Ultra · fps

#9 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 7 9850X3D148
  2. 2Ryzen 7 9800X3D143
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D141
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3D2141
  5. 8Core Ultra 7 270K Plus116
  6. 9Core Ultra 5 250K Plus111
  7. 10Core Ultra 9 285K111

Blender Benchmark samples/min

#10 of 17 · Blender Open Data
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D2687
  2. 2Ryzen 9 9950X3D663
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X625
  4. 4Core Ultra 7 270K Plus611
  5. 9Ryzen 9 9900X3D473
  6. 10Core Ultra 5 250K Plus433
  7. 11Ryzen 7 9850X3D345

The whole Processors line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

Cyberpunk 2077

SettingResultSource
1080p Ultra
one source		 111fps Tom's Hardware, Mar 24, 2026
GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Counter-Strike 2

SettingResultSource
1080p Ultra
one source		 617fps Tom's Hardware, Mar 24, 2026
GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Blender Benchmark

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 433samples/min Blender Open Data, Oct 19, 2026
Median of 6 user CPU results, Blender 4.5.0

Geekbench 6 CPU

SettingResultSource
Multi-core
one source		 21,849points Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026
Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026
Single-core
one source		 2,775points Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026
Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026

Cinebench 2024

SettingResultSource
Multi-core
one source		 1,860points Tom's Hardware, Mar 24, 2026

Sources

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