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Intel explains what went wrong with its new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs

The new Arrow Lake Core i9 285K and Core i5 245K desktop processors didn't live up to even conservative expectations - but now Intel has explained why.

Intel's new Core Ultra 200-series desktop processors, codenamed Arrow Lake, launched to seriously underwhelming reviews back in October. This caused a 2-14% performance loss on APO-profiled titlesSolved in Windows 11 26100.2161 or newerBSOD when launching Easy Anti-Cheat titles on Windows 11 24H2Known issue with Easy Anti-Cheat KMD and Windows 11 24H2, issue exacerbated by disabling Virtualisation-Based Security (VBS)Solved with new Easy Anti-Cheat driver distributed by EpicSelect performance settings misconfigured in some pre-release BIOSesConsistency of VIP performance settings not sufficiently checked by Intel, including ReBAR, Intel APO, compute ring frequency, IMC gear, sustained/transient power limits. We're expecting to hear more from Intel at that time - as well as rivals AMD and Nvidia - so stay tuned for our reports from CES in the new year.

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