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 […]
You need multiple clusters of E cores for it to even do anything. Basically APO uses one e-core per bank of 4 to maximize L2 cache for a game thread (l2 is shared by 4 e core clusters). So the only 12th gen cpu that will get meaningful performance is the 12900k. That means it only makes sense on processors with 8 or more e cores.