Intel’s Nova Lake needs more than extra cores to beat AMD’s Zen 6

In recent years, Intel has struggled to catch up with AMD, as Team Red's Zen architecture has been on a roll. Even though Intel has recovered some ground in consumer CPUs with the Core Ultra 200-series, AMD's 3D V-Cache technology stacks cache without widening the chip or adding more cores, giving it an efficiency advantage and delivering more performance without higher power consumption.