I'm not waiting a year for Panther. Building a system next month with 285k. I'll be happy with better efficiency and won't even notice the slight drop in gaming performance. If I'm that desperate to gain a couple extra frames... I'll just OC it a bit on the ASUS Extreme mobo I'm getting.
The Intel Arrow Lake CPUs appear to be beastly multi-core chips as an entry in the SiSoftware database for the Core Ultra 7 265K shows a better performance score than the Ryzen 9 9950X. This is an interesting development since the Core Ultra 7 265K lacks hyperthreading.