Not a Waste of Sand: Intel Ultra 7 270K Plus CPU Review & Benchmarks (Gamers Nexus) [Video]

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March 25, 2026

Video length: 34m 09s

Intel's Ultra 7 270K Plus (270KP) is one of the most promising CPU launches we've seen in a long time, and has some similarities to the Ryzen 1000 and 2000 era of CPUs. The key difference is that Intel's platform is a dead-end, unfortunately, but from a performance standpoint, Intel is showing a lot of positive similarities. In this testing, we benchmark the Intel 270K Plus vs. the 250K Plus, AMD's X3D CPUs (including the 7800X3D, 5800X3D, and 9800X3D), and Intel's predecessors, like the 14700K. Intel's 270K Plus does particularly well in workloads like video editing in DaVinci Resolve and in our code compile test.

00:00 - Intel 270K Plus CPU Review and Benchmarks

03:55 - Intel, Please Listen

06:12 - Intel Platform Performance Package

07:29 - Intel 270K Plus Specs

08:08 - CPU Pricing Update

09:05 - Frequency: All-Core 270K Plus vs. 250KP

09:53 - Frequency: Single-Thread Boost Intel 270K Plus

11:14 - Baldur's Gate 3 Best Gaming CPUs 2026

12:38 - Outer Worlds 2 Intel 270K Plus Benchmark

13:38 - Outer Worlds 2 1440p Benchmarks

14:04 - Stellaris CPU Simulation Time Comparison

15:15 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Intel vs AMD CPUs

16:02 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 1440p

16:26 - Dragon's Dogma 2 Intel 270K and 250K Benchmarks

17:35 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 1080p Medium

18:25 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 1080p High

19:28 - F1 25 270K vs 7800X3D, 5800X3D

20:24 - Starfield CPU Benchmarks

21:11 - Chromium Code Compile Best CPUs for Programmers

22:42 - Blender CPU Rendering Benchmarks

24:14 - 7-Zip File Compression Best CPUs

25:23 - 7-Zip File Decompression Comparison

26:34 - Adobe Photoshop Best CPUs

27:10 - DaVinci Resolve Video Editing CPU Benchmarks

27:55 - Power Consumption - Blender All-Core

28:57 - Power Consumption - F1 25

29:18 - Conclusion

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Posted Wednesday 25 March 2026 at 5:15 pm AEST (my time).

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