Line Meteor Lake laptop processors Intel It seems she didn’t get off to a great start on her journey. After seeing the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H exposed against an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U running Linux, Ultrabook Review found a 12.5% ​​performance improvement after updating the ASUS Zenbook 14 UX3405 OLED notebook’s BIOS.

According to its version, Ultrabook Review explains that laptops with Intel Comet Lake processors originally launched on the market have a pre-release version of the BIOS, which significantly reduces the performance of the device, mainly due to interference in the power supply process.

The BIOS update, and above all the remarkable improvement it claims to provide, clearly shows that Intel is aware of the problem, which could affect not only ASUS laptops, but also models from other manufacturers, such as Acer, as they see the results. done by Phoronix with Linux.

BIOS version for ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 which provides performance and efficiency improvements is 203while the one that came pre-installed on the computer was 201. In Ultrabook Review they saw 12.5% ​​performance improvement. with Cinebench R23.

The reviewer scored 201 CPU-level BIOS scores of 12,357 points in the best multi-core run, 11,342 points in the ten-minute loop test, and 1,751 points in the best single-core run. while with BIOS 203 the scores were 13,873, 12,132 and 1,761 respectively.

We’ll see if there are more cases like this of Meteor Lake notebooks improving performance after a BIOS update in the near future. As the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 does not seem to be the only device affected by these issues, It’s not out of place to think that Intel has released some immature products, at least in terms of support.although if it’s not the hardware that’s directly affected, it’s highly likely that they can be resolved with BIOS, microcode, and OS kernel updates.