Bartlett Lake-S Benchmarked: 12 P-Core Intel CPU Shines In Gaming
German hardware enthusiast and streamer Zed Up managed to get his mitts on a Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest gain against the Core i9-14900K it's based on, but nothing that even comes close to validating the enormous price of the processor and its platform.
First, let's back up. The Core 9 273PQE is a newer processor for LGA 1700, the same platform that hosted Alder Lake and Raptor Lake, the 12th and 13th/14th generation Core processors, respectively. Unlike all previous processors for the platform, this specific CPU does not have E-cores. Instead, it simply replaces the four E-core clusters on Raptor Lake with four more P-cores, resulting in a chip with the same specs all the way around as a Core i9-14900K, just with twelve Raptor Cove P-cores instead of an 8+16 configuration.
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