Intel Core Ultra 7 260K appears in Newegg prebuilt desktops

Intel Core Ultra 7 260K has appeared in ABS gaming desktops on Newegg despite no official announcement from Intel. Intel confirmed the chip is a limited-availability SKU that will not be sold as a boxed retail product for DIY builders. The processor is exclusive to ABS systems sold through Newegg.

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The 260K uses the original Arrow Lake architecture rather than the Arrow Lake Refresh lineup. It features 20 cores, including 8 performance cores and 12 efficiency cores. The chip has 30 MB of L3 cache and a 125 W base power. While it shares many specs with the Core Ultra 7 265K, the 260K has a lower maximum P-core boost of 5.4 GHz compared to 5.5 GHz on the 265K. It also supports DDR5-6400 memory for up to 256 GB of RAM, meaning it lacks the DDR5-7200 support and Intel's Binary Optimization Tool found in newer models.

Newegg is using the processor in two configurations. The ABS Kaze II Aqua costs $1,699.99 and includes an RTX 5060, 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a 1 TB PCIe-4.0 SSD. The ABS Flux II Aqua costs $1,999.99 and includes an RTX 5070 with the same memory and storage.

Early Newegg listings contained some inconsistencies. Some pages referred to the chip as a 260KF, which would lack integrated graphics, and one spec field listed a 5.2 GHz boost clock. No benchmarks for the processor have been published.