Monday, September 15th 2025
Intel Core Ultra 3 205 Gets Early Review
Intel's cheapest processor for the Socket LGA1851 platform, the Core Ultra 3 205, got an early review from Korean tech publication BullsLab. The chip is based on the "Arrow Lake" microarchitecture, with a 4P+4E core configuration. This includes four "Lion Cove" P-cores, each with 3 MB of dedicated L2 cache, and one "Skymont" E-core cluster with 4 MB of L2 cache. The four P-cores and one E-core cluster share 15 MB of L3 cache. The P-cores boost up to 4.90 GHz, and the E-cores boost up to 4.20 GHz. The iGPU gets 2 Xe cores compared to 4 Xe cores on the higher models in the series; and you even get the 13 TOPS NPU found in other models. Cinebench R23 sees the Core Ultra 3 205 post significant performance gains over its predecessor, the Core i3-14100, in the multithreaded test, and reasonably good gains in the single-threaded test. It also posts significant 75% gains in 3DMark Time Spy iGPU performance tests.
Source:
BullsLab (YouTube)




12 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 3 205 Gets Early Review
There should be at least one low end SKU with the big iGPU.
Cinebench R23 doesn't use 256-bit SIMD. chipsandcheese.com/p/cinebench-2024-reviewing-the-benchmark
[ICODE]Although SSE and AVX provide 128-bit and 256-bit vector support respectively, Cinebench 2024 makes little use of vector compute. Most AVX or SSE instructions operate on scalar values. The most common FP/vector math instructions are VMULSS (scalar FP32 multiply) and VADDSS (scalar FP32 add). About 6.8% of instructions do math on 128-bit vectors. [/ICODE][ICODE]256-bit vectors are nearly absent[/ICODE]
So they might as well stick it to a higher end sku.
Like say the amd ryzen ai 370