Despite promising new architectures, AMD and Intel's latest CPU releases have fallen short of expectations. While there have been some notable standouts, like the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the overall performance improvements have been modest.
Table of Contents Whenever we have a new generation of processors from AMD and Intel , a lot of things change. Of course, the power balance among the best processors shifts, and there’s a seemingly endless number of comparisons to start making between each lineup. This year, however, AMD and Intel barely moved the needle.
Related But then the CPUs showed up. AMD provided good gen-on-gen improvements in productivity apps, but it was largely still competitive with Intel’s 14th-gen offerings. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, performant as it was, couldn’t manage to beat the Core i9-14900K across apps. It took AMD two years to release a new flagship, and the result was a rather familiar CPU with performance that, in most apps, was just middling.
But the damage had already been done. Even with better performance, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 lineup just didn’t deliver the performance boost AMD had promised, particularly in games. They became an even more tough sell with chips like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D floating around, which offers performance that’s hard for AMD itself to contend with.
The flagship Core Ultra 9 285K wasn’t a complete disaster, but it definitely wasn’t a strong release. Intel could rarely match the Ryzen 9 9950X from AMD, which as I covered in the last section, was a disappointing CPU in its own right. Gaming was much worse, though. Not only did Intel not provide a significant improvement in gaming performance; in most games, Intel’s 13th-gen and 14th-gen offerings were straight-up faster.
A new perspective There are a lot of parallels between AMD and Intel this year, but the most important is this: AMD and Intel designed their new architectures for laptops. That’s speculation on my part, but it’s really hard to imagine these architectures were angled toward desktops with their middling performance. And it’s even more difficult to imagine when you consider how impressive Lunar Lake and Zen 5 are in laptops.
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