What happened with the processor generation Raptor Lake of Intel is already known as one of the greatest problems what the company has had, and the fact that it has had to repair, modify and even offer refunds to users due to the setbacks suffered by its processors has been something quite serious. That is why the company does not want to make the same mistakes, or at least not blame it for the fact that the processors do not offer what they should, so it wants to implement a series of changes.
From Intel They know perfectly well that an error similar to the one that occurred with the Raptor Lake This would end up destroying the company’s reputation, and given that the next generation of processors they are going to launch is one of the most important (due to their advances in AI), this is something they cannot afford. Although the solution they have found has nothing to do with the revision of the processors, but directly with a problem that they have already tried to solve when the problem with these processors first appeared, by changing the power profile to incorporate the default profile in all motherboards.
The problems encountered by Raptor Lake have prompted Intel to look for a way to avoid similar cases in its next generations
Every new thing we learn about Intel makes us wonder more and more what its priorities are, and for a while it was quite common to know that this brand wanted to find a way to have the highest possible performance and, therefore, to be able to offer it to users. But after the problems who caused the Lake of Raptors, The company is very clear that it cannot afford another similar error, but the changes it wants to incorporate are not the ones we expected, because as such, they do not have to do directly with the processor (where the failure actually was).
The brand is pushing all motherboard manufacturers to integrate Intel’s default profile as standard in terms of motherboard power profile, and the performance difference as you can imagine is quite significant compared to the rest of the motherboard profiles. To understand this, we can look at the profiles offered by the i9-14900K, which basically has a PL1 of 125W, a PL2 of 188W and an IccMax of 249W.
Now if we compare it with the profiles that the motherboards integrate (Power, Extreme and Insane) we will see the difference, the first uses a PL1 of 125 W, a PL2 of 253 W and the IccMax of 307 W, here we can already notice that the changes are quite important, and it was the default profile that the manufacturers used on the motherboards for the processor that we mentioned.
Then if we look at the other two profiles we see that the change is even greater, the second profile has a PL1 and PL2 configuration of 250 W while it has an IccMax of 400 W, and if we already name the third profile we are faced with a PL1 and PL2 of “4096 W” (as much as the motherboard VRM is able to supply) and an IccMax of 511 W.
This would imply that if the user ended up enabling one of the additional profiles instead of using the basic one that came with the motherboard, this could be considered as overclock, which, as we well know, is not a reason to replace, repair or refund the cost of the processor if something goes wrong.
