Almost immediately after the launch of its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in October 2024, Intel said it would work on producing firmware and software updates to improve its lacklustre performance. The likes of the Core Ultra 9 285K not only ran games slower than Raptor Lake chips, the previous generation of processors, but also worse than Intel's claimed internal results.
Near the end of December, Intel released a report on what it had identified as going wrong with Arrow Lake and what fixes were coming to solve them all. So, as we approach the three-month mark since the Core Ultra 200S series of CPUs first appeared, I wanted to see just how much better things are.
