Compared to the Intel Arrow Lake-S CPUs, with the flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285K equipped with eight P-cores and 16 E-cores ...
with a slightly slower 5.5 GHz boost clock. Compare those specs to our current best CPU for gaming, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and you can see why hearts are a flutter in anticipation of the new chips.
AMD's new Ryzen 5 7400F uses normal thermal grease instead of STIM, which is shown to significantly impact thermals.
Moreover, you get up to 5.7 GHz of boost speed with this chip, making it one of the fastest in the market. In terms of cache, the CPU packs 96 MB, which is quite substantial for a non-3D chip.