New Intel Arrow Lake Refresh leak claims up to 10% gaming performance improvement over vanilla Arrow Lake

[Redaktion]

Possible gaming performance of Intel Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs has leaked, thanks to Moore's Law Is Dead. The leaker has revealed the major improvements that Intel is expected to implement in the Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. One of these changes is the increased Ring Bus frequency.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Intel-Arrow-Lake-Refresh-leak-claims-up-to-10-gaming-performance-improvement-over-vanilla-Arrow-Lake.1088397.0.html

[Hotz]

The absolutely retarded thing is, that they only care about CPU clocks, and 10% more performance is basically nothing as the (dedicated) GPU still matters the most.

Instead they could also improve iGPU clocks from 1900 Mhz to 2500 Mhz, and gain 30% more performance in games, and thus have APU Power like AMD 8600G gaming performance.

[Hotz]

The next atrocious thing is, that they don't give the Arrow Lake Refresh an Xe2 iGPU. It's like they ignorantly (or deliberately) keep their products bad, and then wonder why they receive bad criticism...


I mean let's even put aside desktop CPUs and take a look at NUC computers: Instead of unifying their best CPU and iGPU, they made it like that:

weak CPU + strong Xe2 iGPU, sold as a niche NUC AI
strong CPU + weak Xe1 iGPU, sold as Standard NUC 15 Pro

No matter which one you'd buy, it would be unsatisfying. Disgusting. The only thing more disgusting than that is AMD 8000G series, which does not have IHS soldered to the CPU, and will sooner or later result in heat death or permanent throttling (unless you cut off the IHS which is generally unacceptable).

[Austin]

They just need to hurry up and give us the chips with their bLLC tech that's rumored. I hope we get them on this next launch cycle. On a side note, Arrow lake chips aren't half bad if you know how to tune them. I liked my 285k running stock speeds, but now at 57x all P Core, 50x E Core, 40x ring, and 36x NGU and D2D and 8600 CL38 memory, it beat the 7800X3D build I had in nearly every game I tested. Sucks I had to OC it like that to beat an older, cheaper CPU though.