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Nick Evanson

Intel reveals the four fails of Arrow Lake in a new blog post, promising more performance fixes in January

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo.

If you're a regular reader of our hardware news and reviews, you'll know that Intel's much-vaunted Core Ultra 200S series of processors not only failed to impress at launch but it's seemingly been left to flag against the competition. In a new blog post today, which we've had early access to, Intel says that while the former is undoubtedly true, it has been busy identifying what went wrong, with four key issues noted and fixes published.

Arrow Lake's gaming performance was known to be lower than last-gen Raptor Lake's before the testing even commenced because Intel openly said that this would be the case when it launched its new CPU architecture in October. The primary goal for multi-tiled processors was lower power consumption in games, while still offering generational performance gains in multithreaded workloads.

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