Intel's Bartlett Lake Core 9 273PQE spotted on PassMark, just 12% slower than Core i7-14700K

Intel recently expanded its Edge AI offerings by introducing brand new Bartlett Lake and Panther Lake CPUs. These CPUs are aimed at AI applications, with Bartlett Lake focused on the desktop market. Bartlett Lake CPUs are equipped only with P-cores (performance-focused cores), unlike the hybrid setup in Intel's other mainstream offerings.

The current Bartlett Lake lineup includes 11 total SKUs spanning from 8-core configurations up to the 12-core flagship, the Core 9 273PQE. This CPU has a 125W TDP with an all-core boost clock of 5.3GHz. The entire Bartlett Lake lineup is compatible with LGA 1700, so it's a good effort to keep that socket alive.

Now, the new Bartlett Lake flagship has been spotted on PassMark, which gives us a rough idea of where the CPU stands in terms of performance. The CPU scored a single-thread rating of 4,655, while the multi-thread score landed at 45,427. To put these numbers into context, we need to compare them with Intel CPUs in the same ballpark.

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Against the 24-core Intel Core i9-14900K, the Core 9 273PQE held its own quite well in single-threaded performance, being only 0.8% slower than the Raptor Lake Refresh flagship. However, it is about 22% slower than the 14900K in multi-core scores, due to its total core count being exactly half that of the 14900K.

Its performance against the Core i7-14700K was quite a bit better, with about 4% faster single-threaded performance and 12% slower multi-threaded performance. Considering that the 14700K has 20 total cores, the per-core performance of the Core 9 273PQE is quite admirable.

Of course, it should be noted that the entire Bartlett Lake lineup is focused solely on embedded AI computing. Intel currently has no plans to release the Core 9 273PQE to the mainstream, which is a bit of a shame.