The new ones Core Ultra 200 for desktop computers, they left a great impression among users, offering performance even lower than the two previous generations in which Intel has focused on improving energy consumption over performance.
Shortly after the launch of Ryzen 7 9800X3Dan Intel engineer stated that something had gone wrong during the process since the internal tests did not coincide with those of the media where the performance offered by this new range of processors was not what the company expected, a problem that they would solve via microcode patches.
The history of the 13th and 14th generation of Intel processors repeats itself
With the new 0x114 microcode now available to solve the performance problems of the Arrow Lake Sthese have not improved, but are even worse than when they were launched on the market. Along with this patch, a BIOS update was also released which also does not appear to have fixed the issues.
According to the X account @CapFrameX, the latest microcode patch available for Intel processors still does not solve performance problems, offering constant drops. To carry out the test, they have taken the game as a reference Cyberpunk 2077.
Based on the tests carried out, they have recorded a FPS drop average of 18%, a significant drop that is added to what this processor offered when it was launched on the market compared to previous generations.
The FPS drop of this title is not the only problem that occurs with this new patch, since the memory latency has also been affected, increasing by up to 14%. What seems to be clear is that Intel’s test equipment works completely differently from users, since the figures that Intel announces never have anything to do with reality.
Although the test has been carried out only on this game, and it may be an isolated case, everything seems to indicate that the solution to the performance problems that Intel has launched only serves to make what seems impossible even worse. .
For now, the double-digit performance improvement that Intel promised with the microcode update has caused the opposite effect. If Intel wants to raise its head in the coming months, it should find the origin of the problem as soon as possible if it does not want to repeat the performance problems of the 13th and 14th generation of processors that, as expected, ended in a lawsuit collective presented at the end of last month.
What does seem to be clear is that you plan to buy this new generation, it is advisable to wait until they find the origin of the problem or opt for some of the new AMD processors.
