Intel’s 12 P-Core Bartlett Lake Flagship Fails to Beat the 4-Year-Old Core i9-13900K in Gaming Benchmarks

PC Games Hardware tested Intel’s Bartlett Lake Core 9 273PQE against the Core i9-13900K in about 15 games.

Despite having more P-cores, the newer Bartlett Lake chip mostly tied or fell behind the older Raptor Lake CPU.

The results suggest Intel’s added Performance cores do not meaningfully boost gaming performance.

For gamers, the four-year-old Core i9-13900K still looks like the stronger value and benchmark performer.