As we inch closer to CES 2026 next month, the rumor mill surrounding Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake refresh churns intensely. Just a few days ago, we covered the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus appearing on Geekbench for the first time, and now that same chip, alongside the rumored flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, has been spotted at a retailer. Obligatory grain-of-salt disclaimer aside, these listings don't reveal much anyway.
Both processors were scouted by veteran tipster @momomo_us at a popular Indian vendor named Prime ABGB, replete with 3-year warranties, but they were curiously listed without any identifiers. For instance, the Intel Product Code — similar to AMD's OPNs — is mentioned on the box and can be easily noted down to put up in the listing, so the lackthereof suggests that perhaps these are just preliminary entries, rather than a leak of any official information.
Regardless, pages for the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, respectively, still list the CPU specs, which align closely with the leaks we've seen so far. Perhaps that's another indicator that the info may be pulled from what already exists online, and doesn't come from Intel or an official source directly. That, and the fact that there's no price mentioned, it says "Call for Price" for both.
Not only that, but the 290K Plus has more specs mentioned than the 270K Plus, correlating with the fact that there's more info about it online right now. Keeping that in mind, both processors are listed as 24-core SKUs with an 8P+16E config. The 290K Plus has a listed max clock of 5.8 GHz via Thermal Velocity Boost — 100 MHz higher than the 285K it's succeeding — while the listing for the 270K Plus denotes a 5.5 GHz Turbo Boost Max — same as the outgoing 265K.
Power and memory support listed for both chips is identical, 125W PL1 and 250W PL2, as is native DDR5-7200 capability, though finding a fast memory kit today is likely going to bankrupt you. The rest of the specs, like individual P-Core and E-Core frequencies, match previous leaks, and we've added a table at the end so you can tally the above screenshots with it.
The last bit of evidence against these product pages pertains to the little overview they've mentioned for the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus listing. That text is pulled straight from our very own coverage from last month; word for word. It's safe to say that the information here is borrowed (at best), but the availability might not be, considering the scale of the retailer. CES is right around the corner, so we'll find out soon enough. At the very least, we can deduce that retailers are getting ready for a seemingly imminent launch of new Intel chips.
SKU | Core Ultra 9 290K Plus | Core Ultra 7 270K Plus | Core Ultra 5 250K Plus |
|---|---|---|---|
Core Count | 8 P-Cores + 16 E-Cores | 8 P-Cores + 16 E-Cores | 6 P-Cores + 12 E-Cores |
Thermal Velocity Boost | 5.8 GHz | — | — |
Turbo Boost Max | 5.6 GHz | 5.5 GHz | — |
P-Core Turbo | 5.6 GHz | 5.4 GHz | 5.3 GHz |
E-Core Turbo | 4.8 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 4.7 GHz |
P-Core Base | 3.7 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
E-Core Base | 3.2 GHz | 3.2 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
Base Power | 125 W | 125 W | 125 W |
Max Turbo Power | 250 W | 250 W | 159 W |
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