Which 2022 CPU deserves the Hardware Awards crown?
Spoiled for choice—I think that's a fair statement to make of today's experience buying a new gaming CPU. On the one hand, AMD is pumping out a steady stream of excellent Ryzen CPUs founded on its ever-impressive Zen architecture. On the other, Intel is back with even more cores and an ingenious hybrid architecture in the 13th Gen, making swift work of games and heavy-duty workloads alike.
It's tough to pick a single winner when we've had a year replete with CPUs worth buying. Even on the more budget side of things, which admittedly has been a little ignored with the latest generation of chips, we've seen prices come crashing down on last-gen chips to all-time lows. During Black Friday there was a Ryzen 7 5800X for $234 It's been a good time for the humble PC builder, spurred on by the ever-important competition between two silicon goliaths: Intel and AMD.
But only one can win our gear of the year prize. Below are the three gaming CPUs we here at PC Gamer feel are worth highlighting for some accolade action this year—you might be somewhat surprised by one of them.The Core i9 13900K is capable of doing pretty much anything you ask of it. Maybe not a kickflip, but the computational equivalent of one in Cinebench R23, for sure.
There are very few times this chip is ever bested by AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X, though it does lag ever-so-slightly behind in Blender benchmarks. Overall, that matters not. It's winning the race nearly everywhere else. The one downside is that this is absolutely overkill for basically every PC gamer out there that's not also a self-made professional.
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