Intel Outlines The Performance Fixes For Arrow Lake Cpus

Intel’s caller Arrow Lake CPUs came retired successful October promising precocious capacity astatine small powerfulness levels, but reviews, including ours, noted amazingly lackluster gaming performance. Tom Warren said of nan Core Ultra 9 285K, “...in galore titles, it provides worse capacity than nan 14th Gen chips it was designed to replace.”

Now, nan troubled chipmaker says it has been gradually releasing updates that fixed astir of nan issues it identified, arsenic reported earlier by Tom’s Hardware.

“At nan extremity of nan day, location were 4 guidelines issues that we needed to address, and fixes for those are really already successful nan conception correct now,” Robert Hallock, Intel’s VP and GM of customer AI and method trading said during an mobility and reply pinch HotHardware. “They’ve been coming retired complete nan past 2 weeks aliases truthful successful drips and drabs, arsenic update schedules allow.”

One rumor stemmed from a “mistimed” update that was expected to optimize Windows’ processor powerfulness guidance (PPM) strategy for Intel’s Core Ultra 200S-series processors. (PPM adjusts nan capacity of a CPU based connected nan existent powerfulness plan, specified arsenic Balanced, High Performance, Power Saver, etc).

Instead of releasing nan PPM update earlier reviewers sewage their hands connected nan processors, Intel says it scheduled nan update to spell retired erstwhile it became wide available, which whitethorn personification caused reviewers to spot worse-than-expected performance. Due to nan missing PPM update, Intel’s performance-boosting Application Performance Optimizer (APO) too couldn’t return effect successful games, while “misconfigured” capacity settings too had a antagonistic effect connected reviewers’ benchmarks.

A spread was already applied for these issues in Windows 11 build 26100.2161. Intel too says Epic Games resolved a driver compatibility rumor causing nan bluish aboveground of decease erstwhile moving games pinch Easy Anti-Cheat, specified arsenic Star Wars Outlaws.

Intel is readying to merchandise different group of capacity upgrades for Arrow Lake CPUs successful January, and it will “provide a wide capacity update” astatine CES. For now, Intel recommends updating Windows and applying nan latest BIOS update to your motherboard if you haven’t already. Otherwise, you tin clasp until nan “final” capacity update adjacent year.