News Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains — users test the microcode ahead of launch on the ASRock Z8...

[Admin]

The 0x114 microcode for Arrow Lake has leaked online but initial performance numbers suggest minimal gains in performance.

Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains — users test the microcode ahead of launch on the ASRock Z8... : Read more

 

[Americanrust]

Why post unverified crap?

 

[dalek1234]

I said this before. Intel fix will do very little (or nothing) to address the issue. Promised fix is just PR lie, so no surprise the fix is useless.

 

[magbarn]

Desperate Intel needed a Core 2 Duo chip level of performance improvement and instead gave us Bulldozer 2.0

 

[endocine]

The only cadence intel has is releasing ever worsening products.

 

[Mama Changa]

Arrow to the face Lake is going to be an Albatross around Intel's neck. Panther Lake can't come fast enough and I fully anticipate the once mobile only chip will now be heading for desktop rather than a lame Arrow Lake refresh.

Maybe Intel should get CD Red Projekt to do the fw update.

 

[cyrusfox]

Arrow to the face Lake is going to be an Albatross around Intel's neck. Panther Lake can't come fast enough and I fully anticipate the once mobile only chip will now be heading for desktop rather than a lame Arrow Lake refresh.

Maybe Intel should get CD Red Projekt to do the fw update.

This is really revealing why meteor was Mobile only... But I am hopeful microcode fixes will smooth out and eliminate the worst cases of latency. But with this being the first chiplet desktop chip, I do think some of this is unavoidable.

 

[magbarn]

This is really revealing why meteor was Mobile only... But I am hopeful microcode fixes will smooth out and eliminate the worst cases of latency. But with this being the first chiplet desktop chip, I do think some of this is unavoidable.

You mean Intel's first chiplet desktop chip. What I found remarkable is that they still bothered to release such a bad chip. Simulations and prototypes should've shown its failure. The old Intel 15 years ago would've done a TSMC 3 respin of the much better Raptor Lake (like Sandy to Ivy Bridge) while working on improving Arrow Lake.

 

[Pigpig]

i think this firmware update is fixing gaming performance bug related to variable voltage issue, so it can see the performance boost in Gaming FPS, but cannot see the improvement in testing benchmark.