Ryzen 7 5800X

AMD $719

A great mid-range chip for serious work and gaming

In the alternate universe where Intel doesn’t exist this is an incredible chip that would easily make it into our top three recommendations. It’s great for gaming, producing the same figures that can be seen for the 5900X and 5600X, but it also appears to hit the sweet spot in configuration terms, with its eight cores and sixteen threads surely seeing it right for the future, because that is what the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles are rocking.

Unfortunately for AMD, Intel does exist, and the blue company’s Core i7 10700K matches this in plenty of the

more important metrics but has this chip beat in one major way – value for money. This is faster in serious tasks, and if that’s what you’ve got an eye on, then buy this and don’t give it a second thought. But if you’re mainly looking at gaming, Intel does pretty much the same but costs less. And that’s hard for AMD to get away from.

This is still a great Zen 3 chip either way and includes support for PCIe 4.0 for next-gen SSDs.

VERDICT

The same great Zen 3 architecture Awesome gaming performance PCIe 4.0 support