• Intel 13th/14th Core “Raptor Lake” gaming instability is now being investigated
  
  
• Falcon Northwest has a guide for mitigating stability issues with Intel Raptor Lake Core i9 CPUs
  
  
• ASUS adds “Intel Baseline Profile” to its Z790 motherboards amid Core i9 stability issues
  
  
• “Intel Baseline Profile” tested with Core i9-14900K: 8-9% performance loss compared to ASUS ‘auto’ settings
  
  
• Gigabyte Z790 “Intel Baseline” profile puts Core i9-13900KF (QS) CPU into Core i7 tier

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs. Core i9-14900K [Asus: Intel Baseline Profile] Gaming Benchmark:kafa:

• Intel asks board partners to set “Intel Baseline” power limits as the default by 31st May
  
  
• The 14th Gen non-K CPUs are nearly 40% slower with Intel’s Baseline profile
  
  
• Intel Core i9-14900KS drops down to 5.1GHz clocks with “Performance” profile, baseline default to result in further loss

Intel Power Spec Woes: Partners are angry, silicon degradation & poor communication:kafa:

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs. Intel Core i9-14900K (Extreme/Performance Profiles) Updated Testing:kafa:

• Intel isolates root cause of Raptor Lake stability issues to a faulty eTVB microcode algorithm
  
  
• Intel denies reports that it identified a root cause for Core i9 crashing issues — investigation continues:hitthewal:
  
  
• Intel releases eTVB microcode fix and new Default Settings for 13/14th Gen Core i5/i7 CPUs, instability investigation still ongoing:fiju:

EDIT:

Citiraj:

Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs:kafa: Citiraj: My team at Alderon Games, working on the multiplayer dinosaur survival game Path of Titans, has been encountering significant problems with Intel CPU stability. These issues, including crashes, instability, and memory corruption, are confined to the 13th and 14th generation processors. Despite all released microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates, the problem remains unresolved. Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing. The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it's only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail. This issue is gaining attention from news outlets and has been noted by Fortnite and RAD Game Tools, which powers decompression behind Unreal Engine. Users are also receiving misleading error messages about running out of video driver memory, despite having sufficient memory. End Customers: Thousands of crashes on Intel CPUs on 13th and 14th Gen CPUs in our crash reporting tools. Official Dedicated Game Servers: Experiencing constant crashes, taking entire servers down. Development Team: Devs using these CPUs face frequent instability while building and working on the game. It can also cause SSD and memory corruption. Game Server Providers: Hosting community servers with persistent crashing issues. Benchmarking Tools: Decompression and memory tests unrelated to Path of Titans also fail. For Intel's sake, we hope they recall these CPUs and refund consumers. This post isn't a endorsement of AMD CPUs or any other PC company. Keep in mind any product can have defects and issues, we just want to let you know where these crashes are coming from and what is going on. By Matthew Cassells Founder of Alderon Games

• Intel laptop CPUs are crashing, too, as the company remains silent
  
  
• Dev reports Intel's laptop CPUs are also suffering from crashing issues

Citiraj:

Shortly after blasting Intel for the high failure rate of the company's recent CPUs, Alderon Games claims laptops running on Raptor Lake chips are no exception. The revelation suggests that the problem is far more widespread than previously known. Company founder Matthew Cassells didn't specify which Intel laptop CPUs were crashing but admitted they failed slightly less often than other form factors. The earliest reports centered on Core i9 and i7 desktop processors, but it now seems no 13th or 14th-gen product is safe. Matt's response all but nullifies any theories that Raptor Lake instability might be a desktop or LGA1700 socket-specific problem. Alderon Games claimed several days ago that virtually 100% of its Raptor Lake [desktop] chips were crashing, so the fact that Raptor Lake laptop crashing is only "slightly more rare" reveals how truly problematic the issue is on all platforms. Intel has still not provided an "end all be all" fix to rectify Raptor Lake instability.