Intel’s much-awaited microcode update designed to fix instability issues with its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs – or at least act as a preventative measure – is on the cusp of arriving, and Team Blue has assured us that it doesn’t come with any nasty side-effects on the performance front.
Indeed, the patch is now in beta BIOS versions, notably from Asus, which as Phoronix.com reports has deployed these beta releases for a raft of its motherboards, and the tech site has conducted some performance testing (under Linux). So, how does that match up with Intel’s own benchmarking? Let’s dive in and find out…
