Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance In 340+ Linux Benchmarks
Across the span of 340+ benchmarks run on Ubuntu 26.04 and Linux 7.0 across all these processors, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus managed to be just over 2% faster overall than the Core Ultra 9 285K. Or about another percent faster if opting for DDR5-7200 rather than DDR5-6400. The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was delivering around 84% the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X at 67% the price.
For those concerned about maximizing value in today's economic climate, the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus delivers terrific value and competitive performance up against AMD's current Ryzen 9000 series processors. The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was also running well on Linux without any compatibility problems or any other issues to note.
When looking at the CPU power consumption across all of the benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus had a 154~157 Watt average and reported peak of 259 Watts based on the Intel RAPL/PowerCap interfaces under Linux.
In the coming days will also be the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Plus Linux benchmarks for those considering that 14-core desktop processor. Thanks to Intel for supplying the review samples for Linux testing at Phoronix.
See all the data points in full along with all of the CPU perf-per-Watt and perf-per-dollar metrics via the OpenBenchmarking.org result file.
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