So what would that leave us with, no APO at all? People wouldn’t be happy or unhappy because it doesn’t exist.

The point is it can be easily implemented into the previous generations and doesn’t need to be a USP for 14th gen. Is it even a USP for 14th gen? Cause with 2 game support, that too not even the leading MP games, it doesn’t mean much right now.

Here we have AMD releasing new processors in AM4 and Intel decides to lock out a software feature lol.

This is already tested in this video indirectly. Near the end of the video you can see benches with E cores off and brute forcing P cores. APO is still significantly better.

In all honesty, 13th gen users won’t be upgrading to 14th gen anyway unless they are at 13600K or lower.

This is also not a big feature and by the time it is rolled out into other games, 15th gen will be just around the corner and no one will be interested in buying 14th gen for APO.

Instead they should roll it out to all supported hardware and build back some of the trust they lost over the years. If anything, it will defer platform switches to AMD’s 8000 series (which has 1 additional year of support as opposed to 0 for Intel).