The developers behind it seem to come out of nowhere Cyberpunk 2077 Despite previous claims that support for the game has ended, we’ve dropped a massive update for the game. The new update brings a host of gameplay changes and updates, including performance enhancements. Update 2.2 Improves Core Ultra 200S series CPU performance by up to 33%.
Specifically, developers revealed that CPU threads have been “optimized” on Arrow Lake-based CPUs, which alone has improved performance by 33%. Intel previously confirmed it would fix Arrow Lake-S Firmware/BIOS updatebut it also revealed that at least some architectural performance issues will also be corrected through game-specific updates. The latter is what we seem to be seeing now Cyberpunk 2077latest updates.
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A 33% improvement is huge, and the Core Ultra 200S series CPUs will be in a completely different performance category than they are today. in our review Core Ultra 9 285Kwe find this CPU and its counterpart the Core Ultra 5 at the bottom of our benchmark chart Cyberpunk 2077 At 1080p Ultra settings (update 2.13), it only outperforms the lower-end Core i5-14400. In fact, Intel’s four-generation old products performed terribly when they were launched. Core i9-12900K Even though the Arrow Lake CPU runs ultra-fast 8200MHz CUDIMM memory, its performance is still better than two Arrow Lake chips.
Based on our own average frame rate Cyberpunk 2077 In the benchmark test, the Core Ultra 9 285K’s average frame rate increased from 88.4 FPS to 117.57 FPS, an increase of 33%. That’s enough to surpass the Core i9-14900K and effectively tie it Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The same is true for the Core Ultra 5 245K.
That said, the average frame rate of 117.57 FPS is still not enough to match Ryzen 7 9800X3Din our game testing, the average frame rate of the preset output was 133.1 FPS, and the average frame rate of the output when PBO was enabled was 143.9 FPS. Regardless, the 33% improvement will make Arrow Lake chips more competitive and better than their Intel-based Raptor Lake Refresh predecessors. It will be interesting to see if other major games offer similar performance-boosting updates in the coming weeks and months.