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Intel is reportedly winding down clock speeds on its new gaming CPUs
More evidence is mounting about clock speeds for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs, and it looks as though the company is taking a much more conservative approach to megahertz with its forthcoming desktop processors. According to the latest leak, the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K boost clock is significantly lower than that of its current two flagship 14th gen CPUs, which are currently struggling with stability problems in a number of games.
While the Core i9 14900K is Intel’s best gaming CPU when it comes to raw multi-threaded performance, it runs at a sky high turbo boost clock speed of 6GHz, which not only makes it run hot, but also requires a lot of power to ensure it regularly hits that frequency. Reports of game crashes on Intel CPUs from this generation are also widespread. With its latest top-end chip, however, Intel is seemingly happy to run it at a lower clock speed, even when it’s boosting.
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