Intel has acknowledged that its new Core Ultra 9 285K processor, part of the Arrow Lake series, will be outperformed in gaming by AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9800X3D processor.

Despite focusing on energy efficiency and multi-threaded performance, Intel's new flagship gaming CPU falls behind the Ryzen 9800X3D and even the previous generation 14900K in certain gaming benchmarks.

While the Core Ultra 9 285K offers advantages in multi-threaded content creation and features an integrated neural processing unit, its gaming performance is a significant concern.