Budget or mainstream, outright gaming or do-it-all-wonder, there’s a Ryzen processor for everyone.
If there’s one thing that’s predictable about the tech world, it’s that it’s all very unpredictable. I mean, who would have thought a few years ago that Intel would become financially unstable, dropping projects and thousands of staff, and then randomly announce a sizeable investment from Nvidia and a plan to collaborate on new chips? Not many folks, that’s for sure.
Likewise, I should imagine only die-hard Team Red fans at the start of the decade would have predicted that the best choice for a new CPU, regardless of price point or use scenario, would be an AMD processor.
And yet, all of the above have come to pass, and in the case of the last point, we’ve decided it’s time to change our recommendation for the best budget gaming CPU. That honour used to go to Intel’s Core i5 13400F, but no longer, as AMD’s Ryzen 5 7600X is the sensible choice.
