Intel has launched a new feature designed to make overclocking more straightforward. Called the “Intel Performance Maximizer,” the tool examines your processor’s individual settings, then uses what Intel calls “hyper-intelligent automation” to tweak them for a performance boost. Basically, it’s overclocking without having to fiddle around with custom settings in BIOS yourself.
AMD offers a similar one for its Ryzen processors — plus, it’s only compatible with a handful of 9th generation Core CPUs. Just six, in fact, including: Core i9-9900KF, Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700KF, Core i7-9700K, Core i5-9600KF and Core i5-9600K. Like only a few other tools, though (NVIDIA’s for example) it does everything automatically and should, in theory, create performance levels similar to those achieved in manual overclocking with a single click.
