With the ongoing debacle of the 13th and 14th generation CPUs, it would be nice if Intel would announce a new generation of desktop processors that would fix it all. In theory, that would be Arrow Lake, to be announced later this year.

The problem is that some new leaked benchmarks discovered by Benchleaks (via Tom's Hardware) on the X account don't exactly paint a great picture of Arrow Lake's performance prowess.

The chip in question is the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF. This chip is expected to be in the same range as the existing Core i7-14700KF. In other words, it is a second-rank model with the integrated GPU disabled.

But what about these benchmark results: the 265KF's leaked numbers are 3,219 single-threaded points and 19,433 multi-threaded points.

This compares to 3,005 and 19,595 points, respectively, for the Core i7-14700KF (see similar Core i7 14700K review here). Notably, the new Arrow Lake CPU is expected to offer the same 8 Performance and 12 Efficient core configurations as the 14700KF. [The major difference in Arrow Lake, however, is the omission of Hyper-Threading from the Performance cores. [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]