Processor
by Intel
Intel's Arrow Lake flagship, with 8 performance and 16 efficient cores on LGA 1851.
The Core Ultra 9 285K is Intel's Arrow Lake flagship, with eight performance and sixteen efficient cores on the LGA 1851 socket. It is strong in multithreaded work and runs much cooler than the Core i9-14900K.
Arrow Lake drops Hyper-Threading and needs an 800-series motherboard and DDR5. Its gaming performance trails AMD's X3D chips, so it suits creator-focused builds most.
Intel Core i9-14900K · $589
Intel's top Raptor Lake Refresh desktop chip, with boost clocks up to 6 GHz.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X · $649 ($60 more)
The 16-core Zen 5 desktop chip for rendering, compiling and streaming.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X · $499 ($90 less)
A 12-core Zen 5 processor that balances gaming and multithreaded work.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D · $479 ($110 less)
The Zen 5 successor to the 7800X3D, with the 3D V-Cache moved under the cores.
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