Intel's Core 9 273PQE (Bartlett Lake) fails to beat four-year-old Core i9-13900K in benchmarks
By
Zhiye Liu
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Summary
Intel's Bartlett Lake flagship processor, the Core 9 273PQE, was benchmarked by PC Games Hardware and found to underperform compared to the four-year-old Core i9-13900K, despite having 50% more P-cores. The article discusses how some Intel enthusiasts believed the Core Series 2 with P-cores could compete with the best gaming CPUs, but benchmark results show otherwise. The piece covers the performance disappointment and implications for Intel's processor lineup.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSome say Intel robbed consumers of the Core Series 2 processor with P-cores (codenamed Bartlett Lake), and that the chips could have competed against the best CPUs for gaming.
PC Games Hardware (PCGH) recently put the flagship of the Bartlett Lake series, the Core 9 273PQE, through a series of benchmarks and discovered that it couldn't even outperform the Core i9-13900K released four years ago.
All those P-cores and still no gaming crown
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