What's The BEST Processor for Gaming?! 😁 The Gaming CPU Buyers Guide 2024!

What's the BEST GAMING CPU?! PC Centric benchmarks the Ryzen 7800x3d, Intel Core i5 12400f, i5 12600k, i7 14700k, against the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and 7700! What's the best processor for gaming?!

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Intel i5 12400f:

Intel i5 12600k:

AMD Ryzen 7600:

AMD Ryzen 7700:

AMD Ryzen 7800x3d:

AMD Ryzen 7900:

Intel i5 14700k:

Intel i5 14900k:

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Ryzen 9 9900X CPU:

Lian Li GA II SL-INF 240 Cooler

Thermaltake Tough RAM 5600MHZ White

AMD RX 7900 GRE Graphics card

Corsair MP600 ELITE 1 TB

Montech 850 Gold Power Supply

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00:00 The CPU Buyers Guide!
01:15 What Is A Gaming CPU?!
02:24 What Does A CPU Do?
04:16 How Many Cores Do You Need?
05:22 What's Bottlenecking?
06:52 Intel vs AMD
07:49 The Problem With Intel....
09:00 Ryzen 9000 Is A Bit Meh...
10:04 Power Consumption Matters!
11:52 Gaming Benchmarks!
16:31 The CPUs You SHOULD Buy!

[harris]

Would really have loved to see the 7950x3d in the benchmarks

[MaZEEZaM]

Lower power draw is definitely better as long as it has minimal impact on performance.

[chaitong]

7800x3d for 5-6 year still good please help i want long term build

[adiohead]

Got a 7800X3D and will probably wait until a couple of years before upgrading.

[HennesTobias]

For those still in AM4 who don't wanna spend much to upgrade, just get the 5700X3D like I did, put a huge chunk of the budget on a good GPU like the 7800XT/7900GRE/4070S and be good for 3-4 more years lol

[dendenbiek]

Im very happy with my i7 14700kf. I choose this cpu because i buy always intel. But I love the 7800x3d. Maby switch one day?😮

[godlevi]

I have a 5700x and 4070 ti super and 1440p 144hz display, im waiting for 9800x3d launch so i can grab a 7800x3d at a lower price 😌

[FootVampire]

So 7600 is way better value than the 7600X since its $30 cheaper and you get a cooler with the 7600 but not with the 7600X

[AkshathBhogal]

Can you do this type of video for all of the important components?

[-INFERNUS-]

On AM4 upgrade to a 5800X3D building a new gaming PC you go with the 7800X3D🎮

[ALxdCrftPlays]

I'm happy with my Intel Core i7-14700K, with 5.3Ghz clock speed capable, 20 physical cores, 28 logical processors; and ASUS ProArt RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6. Allows me to render a 1hr 4k video in PowerDirector 365 in only 15 minutes, instead of 2 hours which is how long it would take with my old system (i7-6700k, gtx 1070).

[portman]

7800x3D owners chucking right now. Such a good deal.

[SurgingSerpant]

Why isn’t the 7950X3D included in the graphics and comparison?

[Scolecite]

My 13700k is a beast, and I'm playing at 4k, so it's my 4080 that is stressed the most.

[serverivy]

Literally half this video is pointless.

[NothingSay]

recently my 13600k pretty much died, got my money back and for half the price i "downgraded" to a 12700k. nobody should ever consider 13th/14th gen intel cpus ngl

[miladtirdad]

I have a 12100 and rx 6800xt now. some times in games like cp2077 or jedi surviver i face bad performance dropes (for my taste ofc, too sensitive maybe) and I'm thinking of a possible upgrade. but i can't decide if it's better to just buy a 12400 with no motherboard change or even bios updates or 7600 with ddr5 ram and motherboard costs. is it gonna be a decent upgrade or waste?

[slim_]

I'm still using Ryzen 7 5700x eight cores sixteen threads, 65 Watts. With an NVIDIA 3060 12GB model. Have no problems in 1440, well over hundred frames per second, using Linux for gaming on.

[wapix]

Guys, if Anyone is reading this, I need help. I got a RX 7800XT and a Ryzen 9 3900x, yet the CPU is bought when it came out, so its like almost 6 years old. Which CPU should I get for 1440p Gaming on my RX 7800XT? is it rather the Ryzen 7 7700x or the Ryzen 7 7800X3D Or something completly else?

[badspons]

The 7600 is so underestimated by most. Its cheap and very powerful for the money. If you just want to game, get that one.