Every current AMD Ryzen 9000 / 9000X3D & Zen 4 and Intel Core Ultra 200S / 14th-gen chip — scored across the jobs you actually buy a CPU for: multi-core productivity, single-core snappiness, 1080p gaming, efficiency and platform longevity. The truth is in the benchmark numbers — Cinebench R23 and relative gaming FPS — not the clock-speed on the box. The 3D V-Cache parts win gaming; the high-core parts win rendering; nobody wins everything.
Start with the job — it drives every chart below
Each bubble is a CPU. Right = more capable, left = cheaper — top-left is the value sweet spot. Color = family. Capability is a transparent multi-domain index from real benchmarks (see Method). Re-scores when you pick a job above — pick Gaming and the X3D chips jump; pick Productivity and the 16-core parts rise.
CPUs (warm) linked to the platform features they bring (cyan) — socket (AM5 / LGA1851 / LGA1700), DDR5, PCIe 5.0, 3D V-Cache, unlocked overclocking, integrated graphics. Drag a node; hover to trace a platform. Built from each chip's documented support.
Each CPU is scored on five jobs from real benchmarks, summed and normalized to 0–100. Numeric axes read measured values; the platform axis reads documented support:
multi-core Cinebench R23 multi → 42k-class=3.5 … entry=0.4 | single-core R23 single → 2300+=2.5 … 1850-=0.6 | gaming 1080p relative, 9800X3D=100 → king=3.5 · X3D≈3.1 · strong=2.3 … entry=1.1 | efficiency R23-multi-per-watt (÷ PPT) → champ=2.5 … floor=0.4 | platform AM5+X3D=1.5 · AM5=1.2 · LGA1851=1.0 · LGA1700=0.7
The headline number is a multi-domain average, so no chip wins everything — the 9800X3D tops gaming but sits mid-pack on multi-core, the 9950X3D / 9950X top rendering, the 285K tops single-core, and a 9600X / 9900X top value & efficiency. Pick a job above to rank for it. Measured beats claimed: Cinebench R23 (multi + single) and 1080p relative gaming sit next to the vendor's cores/clocks/TDP.
Honesty. Cinebench figures are on the R23 scale (internally consistent, cross-checked); the gaming index is approximate — normalized to the 9800X3D=100, pulled from TechPowerUp/Tom's 1080p relative charts, with a couple of X3D parts cross-referenced across reviews/GPUs, so treat ±2 points as noise (tier-bucketing absorbs it). Intel Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200S) is the current Intel desktop gen; 14th-gen is labeled clearance (prior-gen, dead-end socket). Known gap (v1): the budget tier below ~$230 and a few just-shipped parts (e.g. Ryzen 7 9850X3D, Jan 2026) aren't in yet — flagged, not faked. Accuracy is priority #1 — nothing here is fabricated.