“Listen carefully, you are being betrayed because you had expectations in the first place.”
This is a famous phrase from the coach in the game “Closers”.
If you think about the sentence itself, leaving aside the context, you can see that pessimistic thoughts come up. What is pessimism in the first place? It is an idea that interprets the world and life in a pessimistic way. If you have no expectations from the beginning, you will not be betrayed.
The same is true for the expectation maintenance effect. If a teacher has low expectations for a student through records or data accumulated by teachers from previous grades, even if the student’s performance improves, the student’s performance will ultimately remain at the level of the teacher’s expectations. This is what happens when you rely on your initial judgment and don’t change your expectations.
However, having no expectations or having low expectations is not necessarily a bad thing. Because I expected it from the beginning. But what if the results were good enough to shatter those low expectations? I didn’t even think about it at first, but when I saw an amazing improvement. For example, what happens if you buy a gaming CPU and its performance improves significantly by installing a program provided by the manufacturer?
# What is APO technology?
APO is a technology introduced by Intel. Intel. It is a leading company in the semiconductor industry and a giant in the x86 market. This is what Intel APO means. “Intel Application Optimization” literally means optimization of Intel applications. If you look at Intel’s website, it says this: “Intel Application Optimization determines and directs application resources in real time”
“Oh yeah… it’s about making real-time decisions about app resources!”
But other sentences will come later.
“This policy, along with application threading for select software titles, can optimize thread scheduling and improve performance for supported applications”
In summary, it is a good program that improves applications through app optimization.
So, what program is this specifically? The answer is given in the last remaining sentence.
“The Intel Application Optimizer UI is an optional part of the optimization technology that allows users to see which games are optimized and disable unwanted optimizations. Users can disable entire applications or select specific applications in the Enable/Disable Individual Application tab. The list The number of games that can be disabled will vary per user depending on the games that Intel® detects and optimizes. Additional applications/games will be supported by Intel Application Optimization during future regular updates.
# Why do you need APO?
The answer came out. APO it is! as soon as! Exactly! It was a program that improved game performance! This is more than enough reason to exist. Even though I didn’t do anything special, the game performance improved! This must be surprising.
The key point is that this APO is based on Intel DTT (Dynamic Tuning Technology). DTT provides improved CPU and GPU performance within power and thermal system constraints. In other words, it improves performance by optimizing the Intel CPU, which has a hybrid structure with P-core and E-core. Once you’re interested, you can download the app from the Microsoft Store.
So which CPU can use this feature? Of course, it must be a processor that supports DTT. First it covers the 12th to 14th generations. To be specific, these are i5, i7 and i9 desktop and mobile processors (12th generation Intel Core processors or higher), but they can be used but have not been verified. Unverified CPUs have limited support and can only be used in advanced mode.
After narrowing it down once again, the “proven processors” that actually support it are as follows.
Intel Core i9 14900KS processor
Intel Core i9 14900K processor
Intel Core i9 14900KF processor
Intel Core i9 14900HX processor
Intel Core i7 14700K processor
Intel Core i7 14700KF processor
Intel Core i7 14700HX processor
In reality there is a bit of a difference here too.
The list of games optimized for Core desktop processors and Core mobile processors is different.
** The list of games optimized for Core Core i7-14700HX and Core i9-14900HX mobile processors is as follows.
F122
Guardians of the Galaxy
Rainbow 6 Siege
Strange Brigade (VLK)
metropolitan exodus
World War Z
Dirty 5 (Dirty 5)
World of Warcraft
**The list of games optimized for Core desktop processors: Core i7-14700KF, Core i7-14700K, Core i9-14900KF, Core i9-14900K, and Core i9-14900KS is as follows.
Final Fantasy XIV
Red Dead Redemption 2
World of tanks
Dreams Three Kingdoms 2 (China)
F122
Guardians of the Galaxy
Rainbow 6 Siege
Serious Sam 4 (VLK)
Strange Brigade (VLK)
Guard dog corps
metropolitan exodus
World War Z
dust 5
World of Warcraft
Additionally, according to Intel’s data, gaming performance improves significantly when using APO. It improved by 13% in Rainbow Six: Siege and 16% in Metro Exodus. It’s not bad to get that much performance improvement without doing anything.
# How much has APO evolved?
In fact, at the time of release, APO was a rather limited technology. It was only supported on the Core i7-14700K and Core i9-14900K and there were only two games: Metro Exodus and Rainbow Six: Siege. If you look this far, it’s true that it’s really disappointing.
However, as time has passed, the scope of support has increased. Desktop CPUs include the KF and KS models, and Core i7-14700HX and Core i9-14900HX mobile CPUs have been added. Also, by this time, the number of supported games has increased significantly. As of April 30, 2024 there are 14 in total. It’s still disappointing, but it’s gradually getting better.
# How about predicting the future of APO?
So is APO a good feature? It’s a good feature. You can improve gaming performance on your existing system without investing a lot of money, so that can’t be a bad feature. It seems to be progressing a bit slowly, but rather than roughly increasing the number of supported games like roasting beans in a flash of light, an update that provides a clear improvement in performance even over a period of time might be better. In this regard, the APO is developing steadily and well.
After all, gaming cannot be separated from Intel. APO is also a careful consideration prepared by Intel for gamers. If you mainly like AAA games, choosing an Intel CPU is a good option, being able to count on the continuously updated APO function.
By Hyundong Kim Editor Hyundong.kim@weeklypost.kr
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