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About This Product
The Intel Core Ultra 5 245K is a 14-core (6P+8E) desktop CPU from the Arrow Lake series, designed for the LGA 1851 socket. With a 5.2 GHz boost clock on its performance cores, it offers competitive multi-threaded performance for its price point, suitable for gaming at 1080p and 1440p, and general productivity. Its 14 threads may limit its effectiveness in highly parallelized professional workloads compared to higher-thread count alternatives.
Performance Benchmarks
Scores are grouped by benchmark family so it is easy to compare raw speed, threaded output, and real-world value without mixing scales.
Render Workloads
Next-Gen Scale
Large Sample Pool
Value & Efficiency
These derived metrics use Cinebench R23 multi-core performance to keep the value calculation consistent across the catalog.
Performance per Watt
172.0 pts/W
Performance per Dollar
107.6 pts/$
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GPU Bottleneck & Pairing
These pairings are pre-calculated around 1440p balance so you can move quickly from CPU research to a realistic gaming build.
High-confidence pairings that stay balanced at 1440p.
Recommended GPU
GeForce RTX 5090
Balanced
This pairing stays very close to ideal balance for 1440p gaming.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Strong combos with only minor trade-offs.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
Recommended GPU
Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU bottleneck 17%
Estimated GPU limitation of 17% in the current 1440p model.
Usage-share data is not available yet for this pairing.
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Verdict
βA solid mid-range gaming and productivity CPU for users adopting the new LGA 1851 platform.β

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