Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs get a free gaming boost with APO, and 12 new games are supported including Fortnite and CyberPunk 2077

Intel has added some new games to the list of supported titles for its APO tech – including some big names like Fortnite and CyberPunk 2077 – as well as bringing its latest Arrow Lake desktop CPUs (Core Ultra 200S) into the fold.

APO (Application Performance Optimization) is a feature that boosts frame rates with supported games and processors, optimizing thread scheduling, and essentially helping those games make better use of efficiency cores. The latter are the cores which are present in Intel’s hybrid CPUs (those since Alder Lake, the 12th-gen family for Team Blue).

TechSpot noticed that Intel has introduced APO support for its Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 7 265K (and 265KF). In the case of the Core Ultra 5 245K, the other Arrow Lake CPU released as part of Intel’s first arrivals, this has fewer than eight performance cores, so it ...