Intel wants another solution to the instability of the Core i9, board manufacturers use too cautious profiles

Processor instability problem Intel Core i9-13900K and 14900K (but also some others) has another sequel. Motherboard manufacturers have come up with new motherboard BIOSes that have introduced an easy-to-apply power Intel Baseline Profile. However, this solution is not to Intel’s liking. It significantly limits the performance of its processors, as it is a basic power supply profile that any motherboard meets, i.e. even the lowest low-end one. It is therefore one of the possible power profiles on which the processor can be officially operated, but it is lower than the standard one. However, most boards have a better power supply and are able to achieve higher power values.

As was seen with some BIOSes, the basic Baseline settings went with values ​​for maximum power below the standard values ​​of the processor. The processors mentioned above have an MTP of 253 W, but the Baseline Profile for the boards often ended at 188W. That’s the official power profile, but not the one the processor should be running on if the board can handle it. Intel recommends using Intel Default Settingswhich should correspond to the specifications of the processors, i.e. get excessively high, but also not unnecessarily low, and of course on motherboards that support it.

In other words, if the board only supports Baseline due to a weaker power supply, the processor should run at Baseline, but if it is capable of both Baseline and Default profiles, according to Intel, it is unnecessary for manufacturers to throttle it to Baseline (often 188 W) when it can run at standard Default (253 W), where the processor will deliver higher performance, but still stably and within the official specifications of the processor, which was not the case with the automatic modes, which were often set to 4096 W.