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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo.

AMD and Intel have taken very different approaches to increasing the core counts of their processors. In the case of Team Red and its Ryzen CPUs, it went down a chiplet route, putting a block of cores and cache into one tiny chip, that can be easily doubled or more to get extra cores.

Intel, on the other hand, decided that it would stuff two different types of cores into its chips and, even though it now uses a tiled/chiplet approach for its latest processors, the 'hybrid' architecture shows no sign of changing. In fact, it's become even more hybrid than it was for the original design in Alder Lake that appeared in 2021.

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