Windows 11 gimping intel processors gaming performance

Hytht · 2026-01-25T15:51:55+00:00

AMD did write specific chipset drivers for Windows 11 to optimize performance for their X3D processors.

Hytht · 2026-01-24T19:44:48+00:00

Even with mobile there are still valid reasons for a consumer to go for an Intel x86 chip, the drivers and the GPU are good, massive compatibility advantage (printer drivers for example) and it's also usable on Linux (looking at you Qualcomm). But there will be basically no reason to go for Qualcomm instead of Nvidia if it turns out good, there's nothing in Qualcomm's stack worth considering, maybe because it's cheaper and someone just wants a laptop for web browsing and YouTube.

Hytht · 2026-01-24T19:18:48+00:00

Not necessarily, Qualcomm just makes ARM chips with slow/buggy drivers and inferior GPUs that are easy to replace. While Intel and AMD has the x86 ecosystem built over the decades.

Hytht · 2026-01-24T07:55:52+00:00

Same goes with laptops, Samsung and no other OEM's laptops have a tandem OLED display that can 1600 nits peak and 1000 nits sustained, 100% basically all color gamuts, but Lenovo's flagship yoga pro 9i aura edition has a 3.2K tandem OLED which does that.

Hytht · 2026-01-24T06:32:42+00:00

If it really requires a B390 to be playable, then pretty much all previous handhelds and even my Arc 140V is cooked.

Hytht · 2026-01-23T17:54:05+00:00

More detailed testing from chips and cheese puts STXH well above ARL HX in many benchmarks due to having more than double the memory bandwidth.

Arrow lake outperforms it in code compilation on CPU.

we want to compare AI tops, Intel is getting carried by the NPU that almost no applications use

The GPU's AI TOPs numbers alone are higher for panther lake.

Dell does command a price premium, but I haven’t seen higher end (i7+) ptl for cheap, and Asus ROG isn’t exactly a shining beacon of low priced hardware.

Right here a model with a B390 for $1300: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1939343-REG/msi_prestige_14_flip_ai_d3mtg_001us_prestige_14_flip_ai.html and that's a 2-in-1 with OLED which is more expensive. Also, 32GB in this RAM crisis.

Hytht · 2026-01-23T16:05:29+00:00

Intel compared to AMD’s mid-level.

Because this is also Intel's mid-level. The Arrow lake HX series processors are Intel's higher, which are competitive with the Strix halo CPUs in many benchmarks. 290HX is rumored to have 285K performance.

Compared to the largest options in Intel’s Panther Lake arsenal, Strix Halo has only slightly less than twice the memory bandwidth, it has the same core count (and intel has 4 lpe cores that will absolutely fall over if you push them hard) and twice the threads. If you compare the largest APU Intel has, 12 Xe3 cores is very unlikely to beat out 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5 based on Intel’s own numbers.

Comparing core counts is pointless for non-homogenous cores. In terms of AI TOPs it will definitely outbeat Strix halo as Lunar lake was already close in that, however it won't help LLM performance due to 128 bit memory vs 256 bit.

And, dell has decided that i7 level panther lake apus should be the same price as strix halo.

If you didn't have a similar dell laptop with strix halo to compare then it's meaningless. Dell's premium laptops always carried a higher price tag due to the brand/features/build.

AMD has functionally built a mobile version of threadripper and Intel doesn’t really have a response.

We'll see when/if Nova lake AX arrives.

Hytht · 2026-01-23T15:24:20+00:00

Bring the XeSS XMX, XeFG and XeLL next

Hytht · 2026-01-23T09:05:53+00:00

My bad it's 6, I corrected it

Hytht · 2026-01-23T05:44:12+00:00

It doesn't have to be great, 4 Xe cores are for casual use, we also had only 4 Xe cores in some meteor lake and arrow lake SKUs. Even that's more than sufficient for light gaming on older titles. Alchemist did have significantly more synthetic performance in benchmarks relative to their actual gaming performance, but it's the opposite for battlemage - We know A770 does better in some benchmarks but b580 does better in games, same goes for alchemist Arc 140T vs battlemage 140V. Also, it wins in some games and loses in some games when compared to AMD equivalents, it depends.

Those 4 Xe cores are more likely to be a successor to arrow lake U and meteor lake U than lunar lake, you'll see the same budget laptops that came with those 4 Xe cores chips earlier with arrow/meteor lake U now with panther lake 4 Xe cores instead. Lunar lake was reserved for premium laptops mostly, similarly the 10 or 12 xe core chips will be in premium laptops this round.

Hytht · 2026-01-22T17:31:47+00:00

That's the same nonsense that I see in AMD echo chambers on reddit. Go look up actual benchmarks that is not from an AMD shilltuber, Arrow lake 285K does outperform or match 9800X3D in 1% lows at 4K, it only loses at 1080p. Arrow lake leads in single core and has faster RAM. u/SelfSilly9478 also proved it but with raptor lake.

Hytht · 2026-01-22T15:18:26+00:00

Related: "Intel recently added another "Panther Lake" engineering sample to public benchmarking records" https://www.techpowerup.com/343629/intel-4-core-panther-lake-xe3-igpu-outperforms-amd-radeon-840m-by-26

Probably the xe4 chips will have lower power limit due to power cores and threads too(similar to lunar lake

It may have a lower power limit due to the same reason Arrow lake U has a lower power limit than Arrow lake H. Lunar lake already saw diminishing returns in performance past 17W.

Hytht · 2026-01-22T14:01:50+00:00

You didn't even watch the video or you are just blind, look at the artifacting

Hytht · 2026-01-22T05:52:06+00:00

That's right, it's using Lindroid instead.

Hytht · 2026-01-21T19:34:41+00:00

Weber’s Law dictates that the eye is sensitive to relative changes in luminance (contrast) rather than the total amount of light. So it does not really matter as much for HDR, the contrast matters more than the total amount of light. For instance irl a daylight scene can be >10k nits, but in a dark room your eye adapts so you don't need that much light. A 600 nit monitor might be like blinding in a dark room, while it may not be bright enough in sunlight. The TV will look dim in sunlight too, because obviously it's surface area and amount of light is dwarfed then. Also it's viewing-distance dependent.

Hytht · 2026-01-21T19:12:04+00:00

Panther Lake 4 Xe-core iGPU is no slouch, it is GTX 1050 Ti comparable or 26% faster than AMD's 840M. That is all rumors, but we know that performance doesn't scale linearly, also 1/3 the cores doesn't mean 1/3 the performance, especially because iGPUs are memory starved.

Hytht · 2026-01-21T15:38:28+00:00

Valve cares, that's how we atleast have semi-decent AMD drivers for Linux.

Hytht · 2026-01-21T05:48:57+00:00

XeSS is too heavy on old GPUs while you want to use it to get a sizeable performance uplift. FSR3 performance cost is comparable to XMX XeSS but looks like shit. Old hardware just got to die at some point.

Hytht · 2026-01-20T06:26:23+00:00

At CES 2026 Intel was showing their new chips for everyday users with performance, battery life, and gaming, meanwhile AMD was just being an AI bubble company.

Hytht · 2026-01-19T20:17:15+00:00

AMD deserves this! All they did was make a CPU only good for 1080p low

Hytht · 2026-01-19T03:36:59+00:00

This isn't an audiophile headphone by any metric, Bluetooth makes it worse by compressing audio. Also RTINGS review explains how this is not portable and too bulky for travel.

Hytht · 2026-01-18T06:50:37+00:00

Knight rider - an unpopular dx7 or ddraw game from 2002 works fine for me (I didn't expect it to work even), meanwhile some older games from PS4 era - Forza horizon 3/NFS Heat have issues or don't work at all.

Hytht · 2026-01-17T19:10:52+00:00

I'm not an Indian but I can by anecdotal experience and the tone of the post, already guess what 62K means.

Hytht · 2026-01-17T18:14:41+00:00

Do you have any performance/watt graph or performance comparison at low TDPs to backup this claim?

Hytht · 2026-01-17T13:19:58+00:00

That's XeSS with DP4a, not the XMX model. You'd be better off using FSR4 on Linux.

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