Arrow Lake squares up to Raptor Lake and Zen 5 in the battle for the budget CPU crown.
The Core Ultra 5 245K falls short in gaming, compared to the competition and previous generation of Intel chips, but if content creation and low energy consumption are important to you, then the little Arrow Lake is worth a look.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.
Where the Core Ultra 5 245K does beat the competition is power consumption—using just 83 W in Baldur's Gate 3, it uses 46% less energy than the 14600K and 24% less than the 9700X. Even though the gaming performance is worse, it's not 46% worse, and it's a near-miraculous achievement by Intel. The baby Arrow chip is generally better than the 14600K in the majority of our content creation tests and even beats the 24-thread 14700K, despite only having 14 threads available. Compared to AMD's processors, the 245K is substantially better, being 39% and 29% faster in Blender and Handbrake video encoding respectively.
While Arrow Lake has a significant power consumption advantage in gaming, the multi-tile chip demands a lot more energy when processing heavily multithreaded tasks. That said, where the 14600K and 14700K will bounce off their maximum power limits in such scenarios, the Core Ultra 5 245K never does, staying 20 W under the 159 W cap at all times.
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