Is It Any Good on the Ryzen 9800X3D and Core Ultra 9 285K?

Roughly a year ago we put the Ryzen 9800X3D and Core Ultra 9 285K through a marathon head-to-head across 45 games, and the result was decisive: on average the Ryzen chip was 24% faster.

Since then Intel has issued a steady stream of firmware and tuning updates, including a new one-click overclocking feature called Boost 200S. That makes this a good moment to revisit the matchup and see whether any of those changes have meaningfully shifted the landscape for Intel’s flagship part.

For this updated round of testing we narrowed the list to a dozen titles, most of them newly released or recently updated, and evaluated each with two quality presets, typically medium and ultra. […]

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