CPU gaming showdown: 9800X3D vs Core 9 285K

AMD’s newest X3D CPU is looking like it’s the super star chip of a generation.

You can’t swing a GPU without The past month has been both exciting and underwhelming. Intel had a lot riding on Arrow Lake. The third iteration of Intel’s desktop CPU architecture, it got an upgrade from the Intel 7 process node used with Raptor Lake to TSMC’s N3B. AMD replied with the 3D V-Cache enabled 9800X3D, based on the Zen 5 architecture. From the sidelines, Arrow Lake sounded like the more impressive design. Multi-tile chips leveraging a variety of manufacturing nodes, with a renewed focus on efficiency? Sounds great. Toss in the new Lion Cove performance cores and Skymont efficiency cores, and it felt like Intel’s race to lose. Using stacked L3 cache has proven effective in boosting gaming performance, but otherwise, Zen 5 X3D didn’t sound that exciting. How…

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