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Nick Evanson

Intel's Arrow Lake chips aren't winning any awards for gaming performance but I think its new E-cores deserve a gold star

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

When Intel first announced its new Core Ultra 200S series of desktop processors, all using its latest Arrow Lake architecture, eyebrows around the world collectively shot up. Not because Intel had wrestled power consumption in game back under control and not because HyperThreading was gone. The shock was that Intel publicly admitted that Core Ultra 200S chips just weren't as good in gaming as 14th Gen Core models.

Just how much worse wasn't obvious until we finally got to test out the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 5 245K. In one fell swoop, Intel let go of the gaming crown it had been fighting AMD and its 3D V-Cache equipped processors over.

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