While Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs are highly compelling across a wide range of applications, in the hard-core gaming market, AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs are largely untouched. It's been well-known for a bit now that Intel was taking a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" philosophy with its next-gen Nova Lake CPUs, adding massive last-level cache (literally called bLLC, or Big Last Level Cache) to some chips to improve gaming performance.