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But having E-cores does seem to offer the benefit of greater multi-threaded performance and reduced power consumption - something intel has struggled with [1][2]. I find this innovation from intel much more refreshing than their typical route of clocking CPU's beyond diminishing returns with regard to power consumption. I imagine this higher degree of power consumption flexibility makes a lot of sense for laptops also.

Though I don't have experiencing using these CPUs so I don't know how well management of processes is implemented (probably only going to improve from now though).

Sure, marketing might play a bit into it. Less savvy buyers might make the mistake of comparing core counts across different brands / architectures rather than checking benchmark comparisons. Makes me think of the class action that happened with the Bulldozer architecture [3]. As long as they advertise the cores as distinct P and E cores, I think it is fair enough.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-12900k-an...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(microarchitecture)#...