The new range of desktop Intel processors for 2024, Core Ultra 200 Serieshas been on the market since the end of October, a new range that is characterized by considerably reducing energy consumption with lower performance than the generation it replaces, something that, as expected, has not been liked by consumers. users.
The finishing touch that was missing from the new Intel processors was given last week by AMD with the launch of the new Ryzen 7 9800X3Da processor that far surpasses Intel’s most powerful model and which, as expected, has raised blisters in the company.
And we say that it has raised blisters because Intel knew perfectly well what performance its new range of processors offered before launching it on the market, however, it was not until the presentation of AMD’s new gaming processor when it announced that it is working to improve the performance of the Arrow Lake through updates.
Gaming performance improvements in the Core Ultra 200
In an interview with Hot Hardware, Robert Hallock, vice president and general director of AI at Intel, states that the company is working to solve the disastrous launch of the Arrow Lake, since it does not even meet the company’s own expectations and much more. less that of consumers.
I can’t go into all the details yet, but we identified a number of multi-factor issues at the operating system level, at the BIOS level, and I will say that the performance that we saw in the reviews is not what we expected and it is not what we intended. The launch simply didn’t go as planned. That’s been humbling for all of us, inspiring quite a large internal response to get to the bottom of what happened and fix it.
I am very surprised that Intel has not made performance testing of the new Arrow Lake before launching them on the market. This seems like a simple excuse to justify their poor performance, an excuse that seems more like a child of a company worth billions of dollars.
Fortunately, this problem is not the same one that the company faced with the launch of the 13th and 14th generation of the Intel Core and that, as expected, has cost it a class action lawsuit, despite, in theory, having The problem has already been solved almost two years after it was detected. According to Hallock, Intel plans to launch these updates between the end of November and the beginning of December.
The company now has a long road ahead to try to regain the trust of users after the problem caused by both the 13th and 14th generations. The improvement we can expect will be, according to Hallock, significant, but he already said this during the presentation, so it is not advisable to get our hopes up about it.
If you are thinking of renewing your old gaming PC and were considering the possibility of the new Intel Core Ultra 200, the best option at this time is the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or the recently introduced Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
