The new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D launches today, after a fanfare of review scores accompanied the full reveal yesterday, and with that the best gaming CPU is now out in the wild and available to anyone looking to build the ultimate gaming rig. And the final nail in the coffin of Intel's brand new Arrow Lake CPU generation has been hammered into place, taking the one thing it had left—namely, gaming efficiency—and easily stealing it away.
Intel must be looking at the CPU market ashen-faced right now because when it comes to helping a GPU fling frames around a screen at a spectacular rate, its once seemingly unassailable lead in gaming performance has now completely evaporated. The practically all-TSMC-made latest Intel processors, code-named Arrow Lake, arrived only recently, putting their all into low-power, efficient running.
