(Image credit: Intel) Some say Intel robbed consumers of the Core Series 2 processor with P-cores (codenamed Bartlett Lake), and that the chips could have competed against the best CPUs for gaming . However, German publication PC Games Hardware (PCGH) recently put the flagship of the Bartlett Lake series, the Core 9 273PQE, through a series of benchmarks and discovered that it couldn’t even outperform the Core i9-13900K released four years ago. Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU Some Intel enthusiasts have been vocal about their desire for Intel to release a processor lineup that features only P-cores. Bartlett Lake is Intel’s answer to these demands. Essentially, Bartlett Lake is just Raptor Lake stripped of its E-cores. Speculation and leaks about Bartlett Lake have circulated for a couple of years now, but it wasn't until recently that Intel unleashed it.…