The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, which never came out, was only marginally faster than the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, which explains why Intel ultimately chose not to release it. On average across 1080p and 1440p games, it's only about 2% faster, and in synthetic benchmarks and productivity workloads, it's less than 4% ahead.
We tested both CPUs across gaming, rendering, encoding, efficiency, and pricing to determine whether Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh can finally challenge AMD’s X3D dominance in the mid-range segment.
The Ryzen 9000 family is expanding with six new PRO series models that break two rules: higher than 65W TDPs and 3D V-Cache stacked underneath the CCDs. It's the first time we're seeing 120W to 170W SKUs in this lineup, along with the introduction of X3D models. General availability beings in Q3 2026.
Orders for Arm's AGI CPU double to $2 billion over the next two years in 1.5 months. While will not make Arm a major supplier of data center CPUs, it will make it a strong contender.
AMD's new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is a unique CPU, but how does it stack up to the single-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D? We put the two head-to-head in a six-round gauntlet.
Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225 has been swept under the rug, given the disappointing debut of Arrow Lake, but with a slight price adjustment, it could be a compelling CPU.
AMD sets record data center revenue as demand for CPUs from the AI sector skyrockets and is poised to increase even further as agentic AI gains momentum.
A YouTuber has tested Intel's 12 P-core Core 9 273PQE and discovered the chip outperforms the Core i9-14900K by up to 9% in games potentially making the 273PQE Intel's fastest gaming CPU.
The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 appears to retain the same core configuration as its predecessor while adding more unified memory and slightly better performance.
A new Ryzen PRO series processor has appeared on PassMark with just three samples, but a very promising spec sheet. The Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D is a 16-core Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache, making it the first of its kind. It performs quite closely to the standard 9950X3D it's based on, but likely has a lower TDP.
Russian YouTube channel PRO Hi-Tech shows what the 32-core Irtysh C632 processor can achieve in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when paired with an AMD Radeon RX 9600 XT graphics card.
The Ryzen 5 7600X3D is easily the best value in gaming CPUs right now, even 18 months after it was released. Outside of games, however, it loses some ground, particularly to Intel’s recent competition, which has made strides in both gaming and productivity.
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