The Best Gaming CPUs of the Past Two Generations: The Full Update

7800X3D doing the business for me the past year. Set the negative offset and watch it happily boost up across all cores while only sipping power. Big win and look forward to future CPU generations on the same AM5 platform, long life ahead.

It's another comparison of current/recent chips but I read the headline wrong, I thought this was going to be about the greatest of all-time CPUs for gaming. If such a story existed, I submit my trusty old 2600K as a candidate. Still using that ancient, fair-priced CPU on a spare gaming rig and it's surprisingly competent to this day.

Jerry in WA said:

It's another comparison of current/recent chips but I read the headline wrong, I thought this was going to be about the greatest of all-time CPUs for gaming. If such a story existed, I submit my trusty old 2600K as a candidate. Still using that ancient, fair-priced CPU on a spare gaming rig and it's surprisingly competent to this day.

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Or the much more popular 2500K.

This CPU was nothing short than a gaming revolution making older CPUs irrelevant almost overnight.

As for the question "WHAT INTEL ARE GOING TO DO?" the answer is quite simple, just more of the same of what they have done for the past 14 years or so.

And here's the link for the dunces like me who are still not entirely sold:
https://www.techspot.com/article/2618-cpu-benchmarks-explained/

Well, it's not that I'm not sold on the benefits of testing CPUs this way. It's just that I also really appreciated the one time / article that included the results for a gamer like me, who pushes settings until GPU bound in the 60-90fps range, and that very well made the point that most reasonable CPUs were going to provide very similar gaming performance even across price differences of up to $200-$300. My takeaway, that I still hold, was that I should make my CPU selection primarily based on non-gaming CPU needs, and to make sure that budget was allocated first to the highest tier of GPU that fit, and then to CPU second (barring severe imbalances.)

It's good to see AMD has been doing well in the CPU market since Zen3. Competition is good for customers, so I do hope that they can gain more market shares in CPUs, in order to be able to focus more on GPUs.

Why you didn't test ryzen 7500f? He have best cost per frame

"The outright best value CPU is still the Ryzen 5 5600X, which explains why it outsold every other product SKU."

No, 12400F is which you didn't include.

Ryzen 5600 is very cheap now

I like foxes said:

Ryzen 5600 is very cheap now

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I went from 1600 straight to 5600 almost 1.5y ago. It was already down to $130 then. It felt like a free upgrade. 7y on this platform and I've only upgraded the CPU, GPU, and onboard Wifi to WiFi6/BT5.2.

I will do a new build this Fall with Zen 5 and hopefully repeat the upgrade path. It's key not to skimp on a mobo. I will probabably get another Asrock Taichi.