Intel Core 9 273PQE Gaming Test: 12-Core Bartlett Lake-S Defeats i9-14900K
At the 2026 Embedded World Conference, Intel released the long-rumored BartlettLake-S, a product spanning years aimed at critical mission edge computing and industrial deployments, belonging to the Core 200E series processors. It is manufactured using Intel 7 process, features up to 12 Raptor Cove architecture P-Cores, 24 threads, up to 36MB of L3 cache, and a maximum boost frequency of 5.9GHz. It offers products with 125W, 65W, and 45W TDPs and supports the LGA1700 socket.
According to VideoCardz, someone recently obtained the highest-end Core 9 273PQE from Bartlett Lake-S and compared it with the Core i9-14900K, which has 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores. The former can be said to have replaced the latter's 16 E-Cores with 4 P-Cores, changing from a hybrid architecture to a pure P-Core design.
In several game tests, the Core 9 273PQE was up to approximately 10% faster than the Core i9-14900K, with most games showing an advantage. This also confirms external speculation that more P-Cores can provide more effective assistance in certain processor-constrained scenarios compared to a large number of E-Cores.