Gamers Nexus: Best CPU 2024.

humbug · Saturday at 21:27

BEST OVERALL CPU 2024
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail

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MOST BALANCED CPU 2024
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail

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BEST GAMING CPU 2024
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail

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BEST UPGRADE VALUE
AMD R7 5700X3D CPU

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Eight Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail

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MOST EFFICIENT CPU
AMD R5 7600X3D
US only CPU unfortunately, hopefully they will make it to the UK at a later date.

BEST MID-RANGE CPU
Intel i7-12700KF

Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail

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BEST HEDT CPU
AMD Threadripper 7970X

AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 7970X 32-core Processor

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BEST GAMING CPU UNDER $100
CHOICE: AMD R5 5600

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Six Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail

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BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
INTEL. The Raptor Lake instability and the 200 series.

pete910 · Saturday at 21:32

Not a good look for Intel to their share holders, If I was Pat I would be embarrassed!

JediFragger · Saturday at 21:33

Damn, I hope you got referral links embedded in all of those!!!

humbug · Saturday at 21:34

JediFragger said:
Damn, I hope you got referral links embedded in all of those!!!

OCUK are welcome to pay me 2% on everyone sold if they like

Hotwired · Saturday at 22:08

Must be some sweet deal with AMD for them to keep giving one retailer unique cpu versions to sell.

TrojanWhore · Sunday at 03:32

JediFragger said:
Damn, I hope you got referral links embedded in all of those!!!

Aren't referral links against forum rules? (although I assume not an issue if they're to ocuk

)

throwaway4372 · Sunday at 07:24

What's the ~£200-300 current gen option?

JediFragger · Sunday at 08:31

throwaway4372 said:
What's the ~£200-300 current gen option?

CPU only yes? What's your current setup?

JollyJamma · Sunday at 08:59

throwaway4372 · Sunday at 09:14

JediFragger said:
CPU only yes? What's your current setup?

I'm on 6700k+gtx 1080, need a whole new pc, thinking either black friday or early next year after gpu launches.
My usage is mainly web browsing, with some gaming (generally not AAA), 1440p 144hz.
I'm thinking 4070 super, but don't know what cpu to pair it with.
I don't like the idea of buying old generations, and recent launches have been a flop, and this GN video doesn't help me at all.
So kinda in limbo not knowing what/when to buy.

JediFragger · Sunday at 09:52

throwaway4372 said:
So kinda in limbo not knowing what/when to buy.

Yeah just buy the whole thing from somewhere, 7800X3D/9800X3D's are the current champs in gaming.

throwaway4372 · Sunday at 09:59

That's my point though -
The champ cpus are expensive, I don't like paying a premium when something upper-midrange will do the job.
I doubt I'll even notice the difference over something half the price,
but that coverage of what's a good value current-gen upper-midrange cpu is what's missing,
and I'd expect a "best of 2024" video to cover all the price points, but they have the champ, then under $100, and everything in between is weird old value picks that don't make any sense to buy.

morguk · Sunday at 10:44

That Ryzen 5600 is just incredible bang for buck.

JediFragger · Sunday at 10:45

throwaway4372 said:
The champ cpus are expensive

Might be worth saving a bit more then tbh, at least for a 7800X3D. Or a 5700X3D system as a budget option.

Kaeo · Sunday at 10:56

Hope 9950X3D isn't too far off, hoping to upgrade big time soon.

CaptainRAVE · Sunday at 11:04

Amazing AMD doesn’t have a bigger market share.

JollyJamma · Sunday at 11:19

CaptainRAVE said:
Amazing AMD doesn’t have a bigger market share.

I imagine their share will drastically improve in the next 6 months or so.

I’ll be surprised if Intel don’t respond but they do seem to have their head up their own *%^# at the moment so yeah.

Game · Sunday at 12:05

JollyJamma said:
I imagine their share will drastically improve in the next 6 months or so.

I’ll be surprised if Intel don’t respond but they do seem to have their head up their own *%^# at the moment so yeah.

they lost 2% desktop market share to intel in the last 1/4 but think your right , but most of the sales atm are being driven by people upgrading from amd to amd the real test will be when all the covid buyers upgrade in a year or two

FredFlint · Sunday at 17:57

I would not count a AMD Threadripper 7970X (£2500) as a HEDT CPU, more like a workstation class CPU.

gary996 · Sunday at 21:06

Intel aren't looking very good