Introduction
How does the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus perform as you scale up the RAM speed? With Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S Plus series of CPUs recently launched, the highest officially supported memory speed has now been moved up to 7200MT/s. However, it doesn’t stop there; these CPUs can support high-speed CUDIMM memory. So MSI sent over for us a couple of high-speed RAM kits from Kingston to test them out, and see how performance scales in benchmarks, and games as we climb our way up to 8800MT/s on the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus.
The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was launched on March 26th, 2026, with an MSRP of $299. It is part of the Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop CPU series for socket LGA1851 motherboards that were released. Being based on the Intel Core Ultra 200S series, the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus uses the Arrow Lake architecture, and is considered a “refresh” CPU, expanding the series. You can check out our review comparing the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K here and the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K here.
As a quick specification reminder, the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is a 24-core CPU made up of 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores and runs at 5.5GHz max frequency. This is 4 more E-Cores compared to the 265K. It is also clocked internally faster with a +900MHz die-to-die frequency increase and ring clock increase compared to the 265K, and the E-Cores run slightly faster. It has 36MB of Smart Cache, and the TDP is 125W with Max Turbo Power at 250W. In benchmarks, it is competitive with and faster than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K in our testing, and is the perfect CPU to test RAM performance scaling with.
Kingston Fury Renegade RAM Kits (7600MT/s & 8800MT/s)
MSI sent over two Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 RGB RAM kits for testing the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus CPU. We have a Kingston Fury Renegade 7600MT/s (32GB|2x16GB) DDR5 RGB RAM kit (KF576C38RWAK2-32) as well as a Kingston Fury Renegade 8800MT/s CUDIMM (48GB|2x24GB) DDR5 RGB RAM kit (KF588CU42RSAK2-48). Between these two kits, we can utilize different XMP profiles built-in, which allows us to test at 7200MT’s, 7600MT/s, 8400MT/s, and 8800MT/s.
The Kingston Fury Renegade 7600MT/s 32GB DDR5 RAM Kit is UDIMM memory and has timings at 7600MT/s of CL38. Within this memory, there are two XMP Profiles that allow 7600MT/s at CL38 and 7200MT/s also at CL38. The Kingston Fury Renegade 8800MT/s CUDIMM 48GB DDR5 RAM Kit is CUDIMM memory and has two XMP Profiles within it as well. It allows 8400MT/s at CL40 and 8800MT/s at CL42. In this way, we can scale from 7200MT/s up to 8800MT/s, with the timings increasing as the bandwidth increases. Our CPU-Z Screenshots will show the complete timings on all four Profiles.
Kingston Fury Renegade 7600MT/s 32GB DDR5 RGB White Memory
With this kit of memory, there are two XMP Profiles that provide 7200MT/s and 7600MT/s.
7200MT/s
At 7200MT/s above, the timings are CL38-44-44-105-574-2T.
7600MT/s
At 7600MT/s above, the timings are CL38-46-46-105-607-2T.
Kingston Fury Renegade 8800MT/s 48GB DDR5 CUDIMM RGB Black Memory
With this kit of memory, there are two XMP Profiles that provide 8400MT/s and 8800MT/s.
8400MT/s
At 8400MT/s above, the timings are CL40-52-52-132-922-2T.
8800MT/s
At 8400MT/s above, the timings are CL42-58-58-138-927-2T.