Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K is Team Blue's fastest desktop chip and currently sells for $519 on Amazon (discounted from $599). AMD’s competing Ryzen 9 9950X3D, positioned as a premium gaming and content creation processor, costs roughly $676 there.

The Intel Core i7 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 are some of the best processors by the tech giant. Both chips are slightly different, with Core i7 being performance-heavy and the Ultra 7 being more AI-centered and graphically advanced. However, right off the bat ...

With the arrival of the first Ryzen 9 processors in 2019, AMD expanded its ability to rival the performance of competing Core i7 and Core i9 chips from Intel. If you're in the market for the ultimate high-performance, consumer-grade desktop CPU, the Ryzen ...

Single-thread performance narrows the gap far further. Intel’s processor scores about 4,926, slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 7950X at roughly 4,876, which matters for everyday desktop workloads that don’t scale cleanly across dozens of threads.

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 for somewhere in the $200–$250 range and pair it with ...

For PC gamers and budget-constrained creative types, Intel's "Alder Lake" Core i5-12600K punches well above its weight in gaming and content creation alike. Just know that the cost of adoption (memory, motherboard, cooler) may make waiting a bit to upgrade ...