Intel’s 0x114 microcode Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) processor series has surfaced online overclocking network. The patch is believed to address a significant performance gap.
However, forum users reported minimal performance improvements. It’s worth noting that the motherboard vendor hasn’t officially released this microcode, which is evident because it’s not listed on any partner’s support page at the time of writing.
Arrow Lake suffers from severe latency penalties due to inherent architectural flaws. Since the memory controller is on the SoC Tile, gaming performance can be severely affected by poor L3 access cycles. Leak suggests Intel’s Core Ultra 300 or Panther Lake CPUs may Reintegration of Incorporated School Committees into the CPU block. Nonetheless, Intel acknowledged the issues last month and promised to fix them through operating system-level updates and BIOS patches by early December.
The upcoming 0x114 microcode is rumored to be the long-awaited one-stop fix for Arrow Lake, which has been leaked online. While we don’t recommend refreshing microcode from third-party sources, some brave souls at Overclock.net did so just to experiment, and to their dismay, the benefits were non-existent. One user reported that his Core Ultra 9 285K When paired with the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF, the Cinebench R23 MT score dropped by 6% due to the lower clock speed.
yesterday, Cyberpunk 2077 Received a new update that improves the performance of Intel Core Ultra 200S processors by 33%. In the same forum, a user linked two benchmark Run custom scenarios in Cyberpunk 2077 (1,2) and claims an additional 3% increase in FPS and a 10% reduction in power consumption – we can’t verify its validity.
Since motherboard vendors still provide older 0x113 microcode, let’s wait for the official release before drawing any conclusions. The so-called lackluster gains may be attributed to limited test data, or the fact that the microcode doesn’t provide much information. Since we are already halfway through December, Intel’s deadline has passed and is expected to be released in the form of a stable or beta BIOS update in a few days.