Hope this is the last time Intel depends on maxing out their CPUs to the limit to win benchmarks. Going forward, they will need to improve IPC at the baseline settings otherwise the extra performance will be worthless in any serious application workloads, thanks to them shaking the confidence of their users. No one aware of this fiasco will ever trust a maxed out Intel consumer CPU to finish their work faster lest they want bit errors creeping into it. The days of enjoying fastest workstation performance on Intel consumer CPUs may well be over. Looking forward to Puget System's and TechPowerUp's analysis of the baseline performance downgrade on the 14900K/KS.
This couldn't come at a worse time for Intel, with the impending launch of Zen 5. Now supercharging Arrow Lake with crazy settings is out of the question for them. They have limited time left to accept defeat or do something really insane (like innovate ) to save face by the end of the year. Of course, this all depends on Zen 5 meeting expectations.