Alder Lake Cpus Have Lots Of Room For Optimization In Games Says Intel

During its Architecture Day 2021 event, Intel unveiled technologies like XeSS (its own version of AI-based neural supersampling) as well as the final design for the upcoming Alder Lake CPUs, due to launch later this year. As reported by our hardware fellows, Alder Lake will feature an 8+8 core design, which means there are going to be eight Golden Cove high-performance cores and another eight Gracemont high-efficiency cores. This can have both direct and indirect benefits for gaming.

Ran Berenson, GM of Core and Client Development Group at Intel, told PC Gamer:

That’s for the indirect benefits. But Ran Berenson also reckons Alder Lake CPUs can be properly optimized for games performance, provided that the developers have coded their games accordingly.

Of course, it seems unlikely that game developers will revisit existing games just to take advantage of the new Alder Lake CPUs. We may see it in future titles, though even then the developers will probably evaluate the current market adoption before going into this specific optimization process; unless Intel steps in to provide some incentives to do so.