Intel’s latest line of desktop processors, the Core Ultra 200S, has shown differences in gaming performance between the company’s internal tests and independent reviews. While Intel’s own tests reported strong performance, external reviewers noted slower gaming performance. Intel believes these differences are due to various software issues that affect the processors’ efficiency. To address this, the company is developing software patches to be released over the next few weeks with the goal of fixing these performance issues and aligning external results with Intel’s internal benchmarks. AMD’s Robert Hallock explained that the performance issues are related to BIOS, firmware and operating system settings in certain PC configurations. Hallock noted that multiple issues can occur at the same time, negatively impacting the performance of Core Ultra 200S processors, especially in gaming applications. Intel engineering teams are investigating these issues to identify root causes. Future patches will likely include Windows OS and BIOS firmware updates designed to optimize system settings for better CPU performance. After the patches are released, Intel plans to provide detailed information about the causes of the performance issues and how they were fixed. Users can expect noticeable improvements in gaming performance once the patches are applied.

The Core Ultra 200S series represents Intel’s latest desktop processors based on the Arrow Lake architecture. This generation has a multi-die design that moves away from the traditional single-die structure, which improves communication between different parts of the processor and improves scalability. Processors include upgraded performance and efficiency cores to balance high-performance workloads and power consumption. In addition, the integrated GPU in these processors has been upgraded to provide double the graphics performance of previous models, meeting the needs of modern gaming and multimedia applications. Intel announced pricing and specifications for the Core Ultra 200S series in early October, with the processors available in late October.

Source: Hot Hardware Podcast