This isn't the Intel Core i9 11900K we were supposed to have ... The Core i9 11900K beats the Ryzen 9 5900X, our favourite CPU right now, when it comes to gaming. In everything besides Shadow ...

and the performance I saw in our Ryzen 9 9950X3D review is proof of that. Intel's fastest consumer CPU, the Core Ultra 9 285K, puts up some decent results by comparison, but it's held back by ...

The Ryzen 9 series runs rings around Intel in this area. The Core i9-11900K isn't a bad CPU by any metric. By porting the Sunny Cove architecture to 14nm, Intel managed to eke out the last dregs ...

Intel's new Core i9-11900K was put up against AMD's new Zen 3-based Ryzen 9 5900X which has 50% more cores ... is some pretty high clock speeds for a CPU, helping it beat AMD.

However, the new Intel ... CPU coolers as an LGA 1700 socket, though, so if you have a 12th-gen or better processor, at least your cooler will fit. Against AMD’s latest, the Core Ultra 9 285K ...

Coming out on top in synthetic benchmark results puts the Core Ultra 9 ... my CPU cooler barely spin up its fans because the temperatures are so much lower than they have been for years as Intel ...

As you can see from Cinebench R24 above, the Core Ultra 9 285K is much faster than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D — it’s not even close. Intel says this CPU is particularly strong in a ray-traced ...

This is the first desktop CPU that Intel didn’t manufacture itself. The Core Ultra 9 285K is built on TSMC’s N3B node, as Intel ditched its plans to build on the 20A node it announced years ago.

The packaging for the new lineup of Intel Arrow Lake gaming CPUs has just leaked out, and shows that the forthcoming new Core Ultra 9 285K is going ... and the Core i9 11900K came in an ...

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