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Intel’s new Panther Lake processors have shaped up to be an impressive series of mobile chips, with Team Blue expecting them to power “more than 200” designs as its most widely adopted AI PC platform. AMD has fought back against Intel’s benchmarks by asserting it still holds the crown for AI PC (laptop in this case) performance in an unusually aggressive set of marketing material.
AMD has essentially published a couple of new PowerPoint slides to shut down Intel’s performance claims. “AMD is expected to have the fastest processors for AI PCs,” says Team Red, “no matter Intel’s claims”. Going into detail, AMD claims that its Ryzen AI series of processors continues to either outperform or offer similar performance to Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake).
Ryzen is still better, “No matter Intel’s claims,” says AMD
As far as new CPUs go, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D sticks in our mind most as the biggest CES 2026 reveal, even if it is essentially just a slightly faster version of the existing 9800X3D. However, during the event, AMD also introduced its new Ryzen AI 400 series processors, and it’s these new code-named Gorgon Point chips that come to ruin the Intel party.
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AMD’s ‘recommending positioning’ shows that AMD continues to win across CPU performance, while AI performance – helped by the internal NPU (Neural Processing Unit) – is set to be similar across most tiers. Graphics are sourced from AMD, via Wccftech.
Content creation and gaming benchmarks are expected to favor AMD in the Premium and ‘Thin & Light’ tiers, though it does concede a loss to Intel in terms of graphics for the latter, as well as mainstream devices within the Core Ultra 7 / Ultra 5 range.
It’s these lower-power CPUs where we can expect Intel to benefit most, and they could notably help turn the tide in the handheld space. It seems Intel wants to become the go-to vendor for handheld hardware and has already boasted an upcoming platform for this form factor, powered by Panther Lake.
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