The situation regarding Intel Raptor Lake processors continues to worsen. After several negative reports, even from developers, it is now the turn of the giant Epic Games to enter the situation. Unreal Engine Supervisor Dylan Browne Says They’ll Be Swapping Intel CPUs for Ryzen 9 9950X due to instabilities.
According to the executive, the failure rate, which involves crashes and general instability, with the Core i9-13900K and i9-14900K processors that equip the company’s machines is about 50% in a year. An alarming number, especially given the importance of Unreal Engine to the market.
The switch to AMD’s next high-end Zen 5-based CPU will happen because “production environments need reliability“. The Ryzen 9 9950X is a processor with 8 fewer cores than the i9-14900K, but equipped with a new architecture that promises to deliver more performance than its rival, according to leaks so far.
Problems with Intel Raptor Lake CPUs are random
According to the Unreal Engine executive, two models of Intel Raptor Lake CPUs presented problems right after they were used for the first time, and some began to show instability later. All this while the developers were working on the Epic Games engine.
Browne adds that most of the motherboards with Raptor Lake CPUs in the company are ASUS ROG. The processors continued to show instability even after lowering the power limit. However, he emphasizes that he has not yet tested with the latest BIOS.
The switch to the top-of-the-line AMD Zen 5 processor will happen among machines with Intel Raptor Lake that have experienced issues. The executive says that several other models have never suffered from instability, so these will remain in operation among the Unreal Engine team.
Dylan Browne also claims that there are between 10 and 20 computers equipped with Intel Raptor Lake processors. This is information that he could not provide with precision, as he claims to be traveling at the time of publishing these tweets.
Intel has spoken out about the situation. This statement came after the issue began to gain traction in the press and among content producers around the world. The company confirmed that some Raptor Lake processors (13th generation) suffered from oxidation, a flaw in the manufacturing process that has already been corrected, according to the company.
Via: WCCFtech
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