2025 CPU Wars: Intel vs AMD vs Apple M‑Series – The Ultimate Processor Showdown
Intel’s 14th-Gen Core Ultra Arrow Lake desktop flagship Core Ultra 9 285K features a chiplet-based hybrid design with 8 Performance cores and 16 Efficient cores, clocks up to 5.7 GHz on P-cores, and includes an on‑chip NPU AI accelerator. AMD’s Ryzen 9 9800X3D (Zen 5 + 3D) is an 8-core/16-thread CPU with 96 MB of L3 cache, introduced in early 2025 as the fastest gaming CPU, reportedly beating Intel Core i9-14900K by about 30% and the Core Ultra 9 285K by about 35% in games. AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X3D (Zen 4 + 3D) is a 16-core/32-thread desktop CPU, 5.7 GHz,
