AMD might have surpassed Intel as the preferred brand for gaming desktop processors thanks to its ‘X3D’ range of CPUs, but with just enough of a discount, we believe that you can find a place in your heart for team blue once more. On Amazon, Intel’s Spring Gaming Bundle is live, and you can avail tons of offers on a variety of products, ranging from desktop CPUs, work laptops, gaming laptops, mini PCs, AIOs, and more. While doing our usual hunting around, our eyes immediately caught the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K.
The high-end CPU is currently listed at 33 percent off, or a $135 discount on the online retailer, bringing its price down to $269.99. As numerous benchmarks would suggest, the Core Ultra 7 265K is not faster than AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but at its updated price, it was never meant to compete with these chips, but provide consumers and creative professionals a more affordable alternative. You can simply save the money you would have otherwise invested in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and repurpose that sum in a capable graphics card or any other component.
The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K sports a 20-core hybrid architecture, with eight performance and 12 efficiency cores, and its clock speeds can reach up to 5.50GHz with the right amount of cooling. You get a decent 36MB of L3 cache, plus support for PCIe NVMe Gen 5 SSDs. Both gamers and creative professionals can leverage the extra core count for a number of applications, and only then will you start to notice the value of that 33 percent discount. We cannot confirm when Intel’s Spring Gaming Bundle will end, but you should be on top of this deal right away.
