I've had a couple of MSI laptops in from the company's Prestige line to see what's what, pitching the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H against the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365. Here's which wins – and why.

Both Intel and AMD have some excellent CPU contenders ... March 20, 2025: We have added the new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D to the page as the rightful king of the best high-end CPU section.

only losing out to Intel’s Core i9-14900K and Core Ultra 9 285K by the tiniest of margins. We’ve been here before, though, with AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Part of what made that processor so ...