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I’m worried Intel is making a mistake with Arrow Lake
- Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs is another major shift where it kills long-standing Hyper-Threading feature and debuts Core Ultra branding on desktop.
- While the company has shown that the architecture is very efficient for laptop market, it's a completely different market and may fall flat on face for desktop market.
- Intel's main focus isn't to deliver improvement in gaming performance, however, lower power draw and lower temperatures.
- Gaming performance leads most CPU reviews and still represents an important use case for enthusiast/desktop CPUs. Even if Intel is able to maintain gaming performance, it doesn't encourage spending $400 to $600 on a new CPU and motherboard.
- Intel faces a big problem with AMD's 3D V-Cache. Intel's flagship Core Ultra 9 285K may underperform Ryzen 7 7800X3D by about 5%.
- Efficiency is important but not more important than performance. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D wasn't a success because it was efficient. It was successful because it was super fast.
- If the upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D is anything like Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Intel has a tough time to win back gamers with Arrow Lake CPUs.
- Though Intel wants to make more-efficient CPUs, it needs to deliver an efficient part while still lifting up gaming performance.
- The first batch of Arrow Lake chips are unlocked for overclocking which might make all the difference for performance, given that you're an enthusiast.
- While efficient CPUs sound great, the prediction is that Arrow Lake CPUs will not hit as Intel wants it to.
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