CPUs

Desktop processors, by maker. The market is a two-horse race — Intel’s Core and AMD’s Ryzen. Each maker links to its full lineup, generation by generation and newest first: every tier from the flagship chips down to the budget models, with the architecture and socket, core and thread counts, peak clock, cache, the launch US price and the year it shipped.

Snapshot as of 5 June 2026. The current desktop generations are Intel’s Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake, socket LGA 1851) and AMD’s Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5, socket AM5).

• Intel Core

  Every Core desktop chip, generation by generation — the Core Ultra 200S era, the hybrid P+E years from Alder Lake on, the classic i9/i7/i5 line, and back to the first Core i7 of 2008. Current flagship: the Core Ultra 9 285K.

• AMD Ryzen

  Every Ryzen desktop chip, generation by generation — the Zen 5 and Zen 4 AM5 era, the AM4 years from the original Zen on, and the classic FX and Phenom chips before it. Current flagship: the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.