Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs came out in October promising high performance at lower power levels, but reviews, including ours, noted surprisingly lackluster gaming performance. Tom Warren said of the Core Ultra 9 285K, “...in many titles, it provides worse performance than the 14th Gen chips it was designed to replace.”

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In light of such performance numbers, Intel's Vice President and General Manager, Robert Hallock, announced last month that an investigation was underway. The company hopes to restore gaming performance to its original targets and share details this month.

As if Intel didn't have enough problems this year, it's recent "Arrow Lake" processors arrived with performance issues, especially in gaming.

Intel Arrow Lake desktop CPU performance issues explained by new company blog post outlining fixes which will take through January 2025 at least to roll out.

The Core Ultra 200S had four problems at launch, which have now been resolved. A further BIOS update for more performance will follow.

Optimizations to threading system by the developer notches up performance for those with Core Ultra 200S processors, which is great to see.