We’ve tested all the top AMD and Intel processors to help you make the right choice. By Dave James.
The best CPU for gaming simply has to be the processor to offer the heady combination of powerful single-threaded performance, some tasty multi-threaded processing chops, and a price tag that doesn’t instantly nuke your bank balance. Thankfully that holy trinity is now more readily available that at any time we can remember.
Some of the processors (CPU) they’ve tested in the article:
- Amd Ryzen 5 3600
- Amd RyzeN 5 3600X
- Amd RyzeN 5 2600
- Intel Core i5 8400
- Intel Core I5 9600K
- Intel Core I9 9900K
- Amd Ryzen 9 3900X
- Amd Ryzen 7 3700X
… and others. Despite the dominance of multi-core CPUs in today’s gaming rigs, the difficulty in coding for chips with multiple processor cores has meant we’re still not seeing many modern game engines taking full advantage of the powerful CPUs many of us now have in our machines. In fact, since AMD has decided to take the fight to Intel in terms of core-count, even six cores is becoming more and more common. Good read!
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