No APO on Raptor/Alder Lake Refresh, confirms Intel A new video from HardwareUnboxed explains the good and bad things about APO technology. The 14th Gen Core desktop series known as Raptor Lake Refresh featured this technology as one of the biggest additions. But the original Raptor Lake series, not to mention Alder Lake, is not […]
  • imaginary_num6erBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13th gen 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.”

    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.

    • _RADIANTSUN_BEnglish
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      10 months ago

      They could just keep support it moving forward as long as they are willing to have some initial “tail” on adoption. Not too long from now, the 14th gen chips will be the old ones and people will be buying further ones as “cutting edge”.

      Bringing the feature to 12th and 13th gen CPUs would increase immediate adoption but also could increase the tail on when those users upgrade. If this feature is worthwhile anyway, it WOULD contribute to people currently on 12 and 13 gen CPUs to upgrade down the line through forced obsolescence: it would be one more feature separating the 14th+ gens from older ones, not just the 14th gen.

      All in all, Intel’s incentive is against making the older CPUs perform better and last longer.

      Consumers should switch to an AMD proc (ignoring whatever problems AND has themselves) when upgrading next, only way to show that forced obsolescence won’t fly.