Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users
Overall the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ended up performing very nicely considering its low price point. If you are concerned about maximizing value in this economic environment, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus with its 18 cores (6 P cores + 12 E cores) offers very respectable performance for ~$219 USD.
When taking the geometric mean of the more than 300 benchmarks carried out on Ubuntu 26.04, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus was performing slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 9700X overall. At the moment the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is retailing for just under $300 USD. In some of the multi-threaded workloads that don't (or not extensively) make use of AVX-512 and don't benefit from AMD 3D V-Cache, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus at times was outperforming the Ryzen 7 9800X3D/9850X3D processors too.
Those interested can go through all 300+ benchmarks in full along with all the per-benchmark power and performance-per-dollar metrics via this OpenBenchmarking.org result page.
On average across the wide mix of workloads tested, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus was consuming around 105 Watts with a recorded peak of 164 Watts.
Thanks to Intel for supplying the review sample of the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus. This processor provides extremely nice value at around the $200 price point and works well with modern Linux distributions.
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