Seemingly out of nowhere, the devs behind Cyberpunk 2077 have dropped a massive update to the game despite previous claims that support had ended for the title. The new update brings with it an onslaught of gameplay changes and updates, including performance enhancements. Update 2.2 promotes a whopping 33% performance improvement on Core Ultra 200S series CPUs.
Specifically, the devs reveal that CPU threading has been "optimized" on Arrow Lake-based CPUs, which alone is responsible for the 33% performance uplift. Intel previously confirmed that it would fix Arrow Lake-S' through firmware/BIOS updates, but it also revealed that at least some of the architecture's performance issues would be rectified through game-specific updates as well. The latter is what we are now seemingly seeing from Cyberpunk 2077's latest update.
