Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful One of the most noticeable upgrades Intel made to its latest Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus CPUs was the introduction of its Binary Optimization Tool that manipulates instructions at the hardware level to boost IPC. The tool is highly beneficial for squeezing extra performance out of the Arrow Lake architecture, but it has led to concerns over benchmarking accuracy and consistency with these chips. John Poole from Geekbench posted a warning to its users that Intel's latest tool can't be trusted at this time, and there's no way to identify when the tool is enabled or disabled during a benchmark run. Pool revealed that Intel does not have any public documentation on the techniques the Binary Optimization Tool (or iBOT) uses to optimize code, making it difficult to determine how effective iBOT's techniques are when applied to a variety of different applications.…