GoKawiilSome say Intel robbed consumers of the Core Series 2 processor with P-cores (codenamed Bartlett Lake), and that the chips could have competed against the best CPUs for gaming. However, German publication PC Games Hardware (PCGH) recently put the flagship of the Bartlett Lake series, the Core 9 273PQE, through a series of benchmarks and discovered that it couldn’t even outperform the Core i9-13900K released four years ago.
Some Intel enthusiasts have been vocal about their desire for Intel to release a processor lineup that features only P-cores. Bartlett Lake is Intel’s answer to these demands. Essentially, Bartlett Lake is just Raptor Lake stripped of its E-cores. Speculation and leaks about Bartlett Lake have circulated for a couple of years now, but it wasn't until recently that Intel unleashed it.
Bartlett Lake comes four years after the introduction of the 13th Generation Raptor Lake processors and three years after the refresh of the 14th Generation Raptor Lake lineup. Needless to say, many enthusiasts were happy to finally see Bartlett Lake until Intel dropped the bomb that the new series would be exclusive to OEMs and embedded applications, locking out mainstream consumers from the lineup. Bartlett Lake still runs on the LGA1700 platform, so there are mods to run it on conventional Intel 700-series motherboards.
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Intel Core 9 273PQE Specifications
Swipe to scroll horizontally Processor Cores / Threads (P+E) P-Core Base / Boost (GHz) E-Core Base / Boost (GHz) L3 Cache (MB) PBP / MTP (W) Memory Core i9-14900KS 24 / 32 (8+16) 3.2 / 6.2 2.4 / 4.5 36 150 / 253 DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 Core i9-13900K 24 / 32 (8+16) 3.0 / 5.8 2.2 / 4.3 36 125 / 253 DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 16 / 32 4.3 / 5.6 N/A / N/A 192 200 / 270 DDR5-5600 Core i5-14600K 14 / 20 (6+8) 3.5 / 5.3 2.6 / 4.0 24 125 / 181 DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 Core 9 273PQE 12 / 24 (12+0) 3.4 / 5.9 N/A / N/A 36 125 / 253 DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 Ryzen 7 9700X 8 / 16 3.8 / 5.5 N/A / N/A 32 65 / 88 DDR5-5600
The Core 9 273PQE is the processor that purists have been dreaming about for years: a Raptor Lake chip built exclusively with 12 Raptor Cove P-cores. Impressively, the Core 9 273PQE boasts 50% more P-cores than either the Core i9-13900K or Core i9-14900K. When it comes to clock speeds, the Core 9 273PQE outpaces the Core i9-13900K and comes within just 5% of the Core i9-14900K's P-core boost clock frequency.
PCGH used the ASRock IMB-X1714 motherboard with the W680 chipset to host the Core 9 273PQE. For memory, the news outlet selected DDR5-5600 C46 modules to complement the 12-core processor. Only two specific memory kits are on the Qualified Vendor List (QVL). This motherboard comes with a chipset made for Bartlett Lake, unlike the mods we've seen to get the chips running on consumer chipsets.
The publication compared the Core 9 273PQE to a plethora of contemporary and previous-generation processors, though for conciseness, we’ve picked a small subset of the outlet’s results. To ensure an apples-to-apples comparison with the Core i9-13900K, PCGH also ran it on the ASRock IMB-X1714 with the DDR5-5600 C46 memory (the publication usually runs DDR5-6000 C28 memory with LGA1700 chips).
Intel Core 9 273PQE Benchmarks
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