If you’re in the market for an all-around powerful gaming CPU but don’t want to stretch your budget too far, the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is a surprisingly compelling option. It’s essentially just a clock speed-tweaked version of the entirely lackluster Core Ultra 265K, but what a difference those tweaks have made. Not only is this, on average, Intel’s fastest gaming CPU ever, but it competes reasonably well with the best from AMD, and does so while delivering masses of multi-core performance. AMD’s latest X3D chips still reign supreme on our best gaming CPU guide, when it comes to raw gaming performance, but the Ultra 7 270K Plus gets within touching distance and obliterates those chips when it comes to multi-core workloads. It’s also reasonably power-frugal, considering its performance, and competitively priced, making it undoubtedly the new price/performance winner. [site_jumplinks]

 Packed with 24 cores and boasting a huge inter-die clock speed boost, the 270K Plus puts Intel back on the gaming CPU map in a big way.  PCGamesN