[The Exiled]

Bome si je dal truda ...

If you read the fine print, it compares against an 11th gen Intel Core CPU, so Tiger or possibly Ice, right? That 19% is pretty solid for modern processors on a similar, 10+++ vs 10++, process so Intel did good here. Unfortunately they took the low road and compared it to a 14nm Rocket Lake CPU. The Ice Lake core has an 18% improvement vs Skylake core, Rocket is slightly up on Sky so it looks like Golden Cove is a whopping 1-2% better than Ice/Tiger Lake cores. Be still my beating heart. Intel was asked but would not provide the same comparisons vs a 10nm core citing product vs architecture, something that wasn’t a problem when comparing to 14nm cores. Strange that.

Thread Director is ONLY compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10 does not have the tools to see TD data much less use it. Intel went to great lengths and had painfully tortured logic to say that Windows 10 has a lot of heterogeneous core capabilities without TD. It doesn’t. Heterogeneous cores on Windows serve one purpose, so Intel can catch up with AMD on the core count marketing slides. AMD has been delivering real 16C desktop CPUs for years now, soon Intel will be able to claim the same number, albeit fake, of cores. Yay marketing.