AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the newer option out these two CPUs, launching on March 11, 2025 for a list price of $700. The Core Ultra 9 285K released on October 24, 2024 for a list price of $600.

AMD and Intel use slightly different numbers for power, but the Core i9-14900K still sucks down more watts. The Ryzen 9 9950X tops out at 170 watts, while the Core i9-14900K can climb up to 253W.

AMD still has a slight lead here, though, with the Ryzen 9 7950X coming with 80MB of total cache. AMD focuses that cache more in L3, as the Core i9-13900K has twice the L2 cache as AMD’s part.

If you looked at that headline and thought, "I didn't even know either of those CPUs were out yet," don't be distressed, because they aren't. While both the Core i9-13980HX and Ryzen 9 7845HX have ...

Ultimately, though, AMD has also answered the critics of this CPU, which has proven itself to be second only to the Ryzen 9 7950X and Core i9-13900K in content creation and often not that far ...

In the slide, Intel is comparing its new flagship Core i9-13900K processor against AMD's best new Zen 4-based Ryzen 9 7950X processor, which it appears to be around 11% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X.