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Intel Core Ultra 7 265
Intel's non-overclockable desktop flagship from the Arrow Lake-S refresh: 20 cores (8 P-cores, 12 E-cores) on LGA1851, a 65 W base rating that can turbo to 182 W, and a locked multiplier that trades enthusiast tuning for a bundled cooler and OEM-friendly power draw.
Pros
- 20 cores / 20 threads (8 P-cores + 12 E-cores) for balanced multi-threaded and background workloads
- 30 MB L3 and 36 MB L2 cache, carried over from the unlocked Core Ultra 7 265K
- Ships with Intel's bundled Laminar cooler, unlike the unlocked Arrow Lake K-series chips
- Supports DDR5-6400 memory and PCIe 5.0 on the current LGA1851 platform
- 65 W base power rating suits compact and OEM desktop builds better than the 125 W-rated K-series part
Cons
- Locked multiplier removes the core-overclocking headroom of the 265K it's based on
- 182 W maximum turbo power means the 65 W rating only describes sustained base load, not turbo bursts
- Sold mainly through OEM system integrators, so boxed retail availability is limited
- Integrated graphics cover basic display output only, not gaming, so a discrete GPU is still needed for that
Very good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 7 265
General
- Announced
- 2025
- Socket
- LGA1851
- Process
- 3 nm
- Base TDP
- 65 W
- Max turbo power
- 182 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- No
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 20
- Performance cores
- 8
- Efficiency cores
- 12
- Threads
- 20
- Base clock
- 2.4 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.3 GHz
- L2 cache
- 36 MB
- L3 cache
- 30 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Graphics
- iGPU clock
- 1,950 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-6400
- Max memory
- 256 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 5
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 24
Benchmarks
- PassMark
- 49,685Top 18%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 4,697Top 11%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 7 265 good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 7 265 earns an Inno Score of 77.8/100 (“Very good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Intel's non-overclockable desktop flagship from the Arrow Lake-S refresh: 20 cores (8 P-cores, 12 E-cores) on LGA1851, a 65 W base rating that can turbo to 182 W, and a locked multiplier that trades enthusiast tuning for a bundled cooler and OEM-friendly power draw.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 7 265?
Cores: 20 · Threads: 20 · Boost clock: 5.3 GHz · Socket: LGA1851
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 7 265?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Intel Core Ultra 7 265F, Intel Core i7-14700KF — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
