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HUB - Intel Fixes E-Cores For Gaming, Doesn’t Give 12th & 13th Gen Users The Fix! APO Testing (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13thgen Parts aren't supported and if not will they be included in the future? their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That's a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it."

Yeah, let's have people rush to upgrade to 14th gen when it already had questionable value to upgrade. This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not if the game library keeps increasing and APO is supported on all future Intel CPUs.
It really seems to be like a software optimization to better leverage E cores in gaming to improve performance. I don't see how that feature is going to die as Intel seems to be committed to hybrid for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

XeSS is in close to 100 games now, more users are using XeSS than people even own Arc GPUs, as it has better quality than FSR and works on AMD and Nvidia GPUs too. Also Intel has already marketed Meteor Lake + XeSS, which they are expecting around 100 million people to buy MTL in 2024.

If anything XeSS has been the most successful part of Intels consumer GPU push.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

as it has better quality than FSR

*depending on the game. spiderman and hogwarts legacy for instance have much worse ghosting with xess than fsr. so its kinda useless for those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not being adopted? Dell, HP, Lenovo, will slowly stop selling 13th gen and move on to 14th gen, like they do every year. Businesses will buy the computers with the biggest number gen, as they do. Gamers on reddit aren't the huge market you may think it is for these companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Incredible people don't realize the gamer isn't the average consumer, innit?