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Intel’s new BIOS update promises significant performance gains and is highly ambitious.
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Such a drastic improvement would typically require significant architectural changes or major hardware upgrades.
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While the BIOS update offers a glimmer of hope for Intel to address the disappointing launch of its Core Ultra CPUs, it’s crucial to approach these claims with caution.
With the Intel Core 13th generation, we received the first CPUs with Raptor Lake architecture and with the Core 14th generation, Intel repeated the same architecture for launching Raptor Lake, although this time in its “Refresh” version it was slightly improved compared to the previous ones.
All this felt like a generation of processors that did not contribute anything new and in theory was going to improve with the next Core Ultra 200S. However, as we saw, the launch of the new processors was a disaster, with gaming performance far below expectations.
Intel’s New BIOS For January Promises Big Numbers
Last month to address the disastrous launch, we reported that Intel was developing a microcode patch called 0x114 and Intel CSME Firmware Kit 19.0.0.1854v2.2 (or newer) that would target Z890 motherboards to improve gaming performance.
Various updates have been released and now Intel has given a preview of the new Bios patch that is coming in January 2025, which will greatly improve performance in games and programs.
The above graph from Intel represents the improvement that the patch will offer and as you can see, it seems too good to be true. We can understand that a 7% improvement in Assassin’s Creed: Mirage is already quite optimistic with an update, but next to it we have something much more beastly, with a +26% performance in Cyberpunk 2077.
Intel ran tests on four popular games, although it did not disclose details of the configuration or graphics settings. Here are the results:
- Cyberpunk 2077: Up to 26% performance increase,
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage: up to 7% increase,
- DOTA 2: up to 21% increase,
- Far Cry 6: Up to 16% increase.
While that 26% maximum improvement in games is already impressive, in programs we find it even harder to believe that it will offer so much, since in Cinebench 2024 Single Thread it will supposedly improve by an impressive 52%.
This implies that if the Core Ultra 9 285K offers about 145 points on a single core, with this patch it would reach 220 points something that makes no sense, since this score is what we would expect to get from a CPU in about 5 years, not now with the intergenerational improvements that there are.
Even more impressive if possible is the 97% increase in the 3DMark Time Spy score practically doubling the results before launch. Finally, there is a 30% reduction in latency in AIDA64 Memory, something that also catches our attention.
What’s your take on this new Microcode in the form of BIOS from Intel? Will Intel be finally able to be on track? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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