Intel XTU AI Overclocking

With 14th Gen, Intel is introducing AI Assist for XTU. The company has trained a neural network on hundreds of processors to display recommendations for a CPU overclock. Please note that this only applies to CPU performance characteristics like clocks, boost and power limit, not voltages, memory speed or memory timings.


When you click "Start," XTU will show this screen for around 30 seconds. In the background the CPU is loaded with a stress test, which we verified to be Linpack. Once that is completed, the AI network will take into account some parameters (we don't know which).


The output is a list of settings that the AI recommends for your machine. Not sure why the list box has to be so small and can't make use of the given window size.


I've captured the whole list and merged it into a single screenshot. The suggestions were stable and gave good results, much better than what my naive x55 all-core OC could ever achieve.

This makes AI Assists a great tool, especially for less experienced overclockers. I did verify that it gives you recommendations based on your system's cooling potential, by setting fan speed to a very low setting.

Unlike AMD's Ryzen Master, XTU lacks the ability to save the new settings to the BIOS, so you have to start XTU at every bootup and apply the profile. Given the sheer number of settings and the fact that they are named differently in the BIOS of various motherboard manufacturers I think it won't be as easy for novices to get these ported into the BIOS.

My biggest issue with Intel XTU is that it doesn't work with VBS enabled. VBS is Microsoft's virtualization-based security mechanism that's enabled by default on all new installations of Windows 11. Ryzen Master works with VBS enabled.