[bitsandboots]

Arrow lake has had quite a messy launch on Windows. Intel, Microsoft, and motherboard makers have made a few changes to prevent crashes and increase performance and performance consistency, especially with regards to single threaded performance.

I wish phoronix did more to evaluate Arrow lake in that context: Are the problems merely Windows problems? If comparing an old windows 11 copy to one with fixes, and both to Linux, then maybe something interesting happens.

I just get the feeling that Windows is a mess with regards to getting expected performance, lately. Because Zen 5 had surprises with Windows too.

And, in the end for Zen 5, the performance fixes for Windows 11 got it to about the level of performance that Zen 5 had on Windows 10 all along.

Intel's fixes have been for Windows 11, so I don't know if Arrow Lake is good on Windows 10 or not, and what to make of them vs Linux for this CPU.