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02-05-2025
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Intel IPO delivers better gaming performance than 200S Boost in user benchmarks
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Intel has recently introduced two performance-boosting features for its Core Ultra 200S (codenamed Arrow Lake) processors, which rank among the best CPUs. While IPO (Intel Performance Optimizations) and 200S Boost share the same objective, one BiliBili user's tests (via Uniko's Hardware) seemingly show that IPO delivers a higher gaming performance uplift. The user performed the tests with a Core Ultra 7 265K, DDR5-8000 memory, and a GeForce RTX 5090D. They benchmarked IPO and 200S Boost across seven games with different quality settings at 2160p (3840 x 2160) and DLSS activated when applicable. The Core Ultra 7 265K was a part of three configurations. The XMP configuration enables XMP to get the memory up to DDR5-8000 with no changes to the processor. The 200S Boost configuration increases the Die-to-Die (D2D) communication fabric from the default 2.1 GHz to 3.2 GHz and the Next Generation Uncore (NGU) fabric from 2.6 GHz to 3.2 GHz. On the other hand, the IPO configuration makes several changes to the processor. For starters, it increases the P-core and E-core clocks to 5.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz, respectively, from the default 5.2 GHz and 4.9 GHz. While the 200S Boost doesn't touch the Ring (3.8 GHz), IPO overclocks it to 4 GHz. These adjustments limit IPO from pushing the D2D and NGU as hard as 200S Boost. As a result, the IPO only dials in at 3.1 GHz for the D2D and NGU. The memory, however, is tuned to DDR5-8400 with optimized timings. IPO pumped out 2% higher average frame rates than 200S Boost in Forza Horizon 5 and less than 1% higher 1% Lows. In Cyberpunk 2077, however, IPO exhibited 3% higher average frame rates and 6% higher 1% Lows. IPO also excelled in Total War: Warhammer III, delivering 6% better average frame rates and 9% better 1% Lows than 200S Boost. With Black Myth: Wukong, IPO only showed 2% higher average frame rates and 1% Lows than 200S Boost. The tests showed similar results in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. Counter-Strike 2, tested at 1080p (1920 x 1080), gained the most from Intel's performance enhancements. It is not unexpected, as Counter-Strike 2 is very processor-intensive. IPO boasted 16% higher average frame rates and 20% better 1% Lows. Meanwhile, IPO outperformed 200S Boost in Watch Dogs: Legion with 8% and 9% improved average frame rates and 1% Lows, respectively. Since their introduction, Intel's Core Ultra 200S processors have exhibited performance challenges, prompting Intel to develop various optimizations to enhance their competitiveness against AMD's Ryzen 9000 (codename Granite Ridge) processors. Nonetheless, user-provided benchmarks indicate a comparative advantage for Intel IPO over 200S Boost. It's understandable since the former makes more changes to the processor's parameters and overclocks compatible DDR5-8000 memory kits to DDR5-8400. As the results have shown, the performance margins between Intel's IPO and 200S Boost are small unless you're playing a processor-intensive game. For instance, running Cyberpunk 2077 at 289 FPS or 297 FPS may not be discernible to the human eye if you don't have a frame rate monitoring software on screen. Intel's 200S Boost is available to all Arrow Lake processor owners via a motherboard firmware update. Intel IPO, on the other hand, is currently only available in China. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Business
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Intel Performance Optimized PCs Could Make Arrow Lake More Competitive
Intel might soon be offering performance-optimized (IPO) gaming PCs in various territories, after some unique designs showed up in China with increased power limits, higher memory frequencies, and factory overclocks for the various CPU cores. Options include 14th Generation CPUs and Intel's newer Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake processors, which could help make them more competitive with AMD following an underwhelming launch. Intel's Arrow Lake processors debuted at the end of 2024 to muted acclaim. While they are strong at productivity workloads and are more energy efficient than their predecessors, they fell behind both AMD and Intel's own previous 14th generation on gaming. Intel went on to announce its Intel Performance Optimization, or IPO platform, at CES 2025 in January, and now we have the first examples of such builds. They include broad-scale overclocking and some sizeable power limit increases, which have the potential to make a sizeable difference in system performance. This news comes from popular leaker Uniko's Hardware, which shows a few specification tables for a number of systems. Most of them are based on Intel's 14th generation, such as the 14600KF and 14700KF. However, there's also a notable entry for the Core Ultra 7 265K. It's listed as having a boost clock of 5.7GHz, which is 200MHz higher than the base configuration. But that's not the only tweaks that the IPO process makes. Uniko claims that this system has also had its efficiency core boost clock raised from 4.6GHz to 4.9GHz, the NGU clock increased from 2.6GHz to 3.1GHz, and the die-to-die interface has been overclocked from 2.1GHz to 3.1GHz. Those are some sizeable overclocks, and though they are unlikely to offer linear performance increases, they may be more significant than just increasing the clock on the P cores alone. In addition to clock speed bosts, the 265K has reportedly had its power limits lifted substantially. The PL1 limit is now 280W, rising from a modest 125W, and now it can reach 350W in the PL2 state (if adequately cooled), where before it was locked to just 250W. It's also paired with a new 8,000MHz memory kit with tightened timings and has a few microcode fixes to enhance CPU performance in general. This combination of changes could have a big impact on CPU performance and could make them far more competitive. Now we just need to wait to see if these IPO enhancements become more widely available. If you manage to get one, make sure you don't update to the latest Windows 11 version. It'll reverse your performance upgrade real fast.
