Quote from: Benjamin Herzig on Yesterday at 15:27:03The predecessors of these machines were usually equipped with Arrow Lake U aka Meteor Lake Refresh - Panther Lake is a huge upgrade over those, whether it has the B390 or not.
Not really: notebookcheck.net/Intel-Panther-Lake-Core-Ultra-X9-388H-performance-analysis-Outpaces-Arrow-Lake-and-exceeds-Zen-5-in-efficiency.1212583.0.html
INTEL still needs to improve on their CPU node (they
renamed 10nm to 7nm) and CPU arch. Some desktop CPU was remade on a superior TSMC node, but it didn't improve on any metrics, which shows that their CPU architecture also needs an improvement, not only their node.