Intel's new Arrow Lake processors are grabbing all the headlines right now but unfortunately for Team Blue, not for the right reasons. The best aspects are the fact that power consumption is down, especially in games, and multithreaded performance is notably up compared to Raptor Lake.
However, in games, the Core Ultra 9 285K and its siblings are behind their 14th-generation Core predecessors, as well as equivalent Zen 5 and Zen 4 processors from AMD. Unless you're a diehard Intel fan or favour content creation over gaming, there's little reason to buy one.
