Processor ranking 2024: CPU comparison with AMD Ryzen 7000X3D and 14th gen. Intel Core

This CPU ranking list helps you to choose the right AMD Ryzen or Intel Core processor. The basis for this are current tests, comparisons and benchmarks from us. We recommend the best CPUs for gaming, creative and office PCs in the entry-level, mid-range, upper-range and HEDT classes for April 2024.

CPU buying advice: Up-to-date and honest

This CPU ranking list uses the countless processor tests and benchmarks that ComputerBase has been carrying out for almost 25 years as the basis for the performance comparison rankings.

ComputerBase does not test for manufacturers, but solely to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of products with potential customers. This buying advice also has only one primary goal: to provide honest help instead of generating revenue as quickly as possible through sales commissions.

An overview of the performance of CPUs from more than ten years in multi-threaded and single-core applications is also provided by content from the large ComputerBase community, which is also available in the forum Mainboards and CPUs: Buying advice to help with questions and problems relating to processors.

The latest processor buying guide (gaming and office)

In spring 2024, customers in many price categories and depending on their primary area of application will be spoiled for choice when it comes to processors: AMD or Intel? In some segments, however, the choice is clear.

Intel Core i-14000 (i-13000) vs. AMD Ryzen 7000(X3D)

The main competitors are AMD Ryzen 7000 with Zen 4 and Intel's current 14th generation Core with improved Raptor Lake architecture, now called Raptor Lake Refresh. However, the predecessors AMD Ryzen 5000 and Intel's 13th and even the 12th generation Core (Alder Lake) have not yet been discontinued in all classes. Intel's 14th and 13th generation hardly differ from each other, only the Core i7 has received more cores. Otherwise, these are the familiar 13th generation CPUs with a slightly higher clock speed and higher consumption at an officially unchanged price.

Model	Cores/Threads	Clock/with turbo (P-Core)	L2-Cache	L3-Cache	RAM	PL1/PL2	Price (RRP)	Market price
i9-14900KS	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	3,2/6,2 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	150/253 W	$ 689	ab 679 Euro / –
i9-13900KS	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	3,2/6,0 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	125/251 W	$ 689	ab 639 Euro / –
i9-14900K(F)	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	3,2/6,0 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	125/253 W	$ 589/$ 564	ab 574 Euro / ab 556 Euro
i9-13900K(F)	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	3,0/5,8 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	125/251 W	$ 589/$ 564	ab 559 Euro / ab 534 Euro
i9-14900(F)	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	2,0/5,8 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	65/219 W	$ 549/$ 524	ab 599 Euro / ab 565 Euro
i9-13900(F)	24 (8P + 16E) / 32	2,0/5,6 GHz	32 MB	36 MB	DDR5-5600	65/219 W	$ 549/$ 524	ab 605 Euro / ab 554 Euro
i7-14700K(F)	20 (8P + 12E) / 28	3,4/5,6 GHz	28 MB	33 MB	DDR5-5600	125/253 W	$ 409/$ 389	ab 427 Euro / ab 400 Euro
i7-13700K(F)	16 (8P + 8E) / 24	3,4/5,4 GHz	24 MB	30 MB	DDR5-5600	125/251 W	$ 409/$ 389	ab 391 Euro / ab 370 Euro
i7-14700(F)	20 (8P + 12E) / 28	2,1/5,4 GHz	28 MB	33 MB	DDR5-5600	65/219 W	$ 384/$ 359	ab 417 Euro / ab 386 Euro
i7-13700(F)	16 (8P + 8E) / 24	2,1/5,2 GHz	24 MB	30 MB	DDR5-5600	65/219 W	$ 384/$ 359	ab 399 Euro / ab 391 Euro
i5-14600K(F)	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	3,5/5,3 GHz	20 MB	24 MB	DDR5-5600	125/181 W	$ 319/$ 294	ab 317 Euro / ab 300 Euro
i5-13600K(F)	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	3,5/5,1 GHz	20 MB	24 MB	DDR5-5600	125/181 W	$ 319/$ 294	ab 304 Euro / ab 271 Euro
i5-14600	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	2,7/5,2 GHz	20 MB	24 MB	DDR5-5600	65/154 W	$ 255	ab 278 Euro / –
i5-13600	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	2,7/5,0 GHz	11,5 MB	24 MB	DDR5-5600	65/154 W	$ 255	ab 279 Euro / –
i5-14500	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	2,6/5,0 GHz	11,5 MB	24 MB	DDR5-4800	65/154 W	$ 232	ab 255 Euro / –
i5-13500	14 (6P + 8E) / 20	2,5/4,8 GHz	11,5 MB	24 MB	DDR5-4800	65/154 W	$ 232	ab 250 Euro / –
i5-14400(F)	10 (6P + 4E) / 16	2,5/4,7 GHz	9,5 MB	20 MB	DDR5-4800	65/148 W	$ 221/$ 196	ab 240 Euro / ab 214 Euro
i5-13400(F)	10 (6P + 4E) / 16	2,5/4,6 GHz	9,5 MB	20 MB	DDR5-4800	65/148 W	$ 221/$ 196	ab 227 Euro / ab 189 Euro
i3-14100(F)	4 (4P + 0E) / 8	3,5/4,7 GHz	5 MB	12 MB	DDR5-4800	60/110 W	$ 134/$ 109	ab 150 Euro / ab 122 Euro
i3-13100(F)	4 (4P + 0E) / 8	3,4/4,5 GHz	5 MB	12 MB	DDR5-4800	58/110 W	$ 134/$ 109	ab 153 Euro / ab 118 Euro
Intel 300	2 (2P + 0E) / 4	3,9/- GHz	2,5 MB	6 MB	DDR5-4800	46/- W	$ 82	ab 78 Euro

In the end, both current series are in a duel at eye level. In games, Intel's top models duel with AMD's X3D versions (which have an attached L3-Cache - beware, the 7900X3D is slower than the 7950X3D and the 7800X3D!), but it is also close at the top in applications. However, Intel requires considerably more electrical power at the upper end of the performance range, while the manufacturer actually has an advantage at the lower end because the Core i7 and Core i5 offer more cores than AMD's competitors.

	Cores/Threads	Clock Base/Turbo	L2 + L3	TDP		Price
					RRP	Price (updated daily)	Buy
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D	16/32	4,2/5,7 GHz	16+64+64 MB	120 W	789 Euro	ab 579 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X	16/32	4,5/5,7 GHz	16+64 MB	170 W	849 Euro	ab 525 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D	12/24	4,4/5,6 GHz	12+64+64 MB	120 W	679 Euro	ab 425 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X	12/24	4,7/5,6 GHz	12+64 MB	170 W	669 Euro	ab 369 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 9 7900	12/24	3,7/5,4 GHz	12+64 MB	65 W	479 Euro	ab 355 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D	8/16	4,?/5,0 GHz	8+32+64 MB	120 W	499 Euro	ab 339 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X	8/16	4,5/5,4 GHz	8+32 MB	105 W	479 Euro	ab 289 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 7700	8/16	3,8/5,3 GHz	8+32 MB	65 W	369 Euro	ab 295 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X	6/12	4,7/5,3 GHz	6+32 MB	105 W	359 Euro	ab 189 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 7600	6/12	3,8/5,1 GHz	6+32 MB	65 W	259 Euro	ab 179 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F	6/12	3,7/5,0 GHz	6+32 MB	65 W	n. a.	ab 167 Euro	Bestpreis*

Recommendations: The fastest gaming CPUs

Like its predecessor (13th generation Core), Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh aka 14th generation Core is particularly strong in games; the series is clearly superior to Ryzen 7000 with Zen 4 without additional 3D-V-Cache ("X3D") in this discipline. Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 3D-V-Cache, on the other hand, will remain the fastest gaming CPUs even after the launch of the 14th gen at the end of 2023 - albeit by a very narrow margin.

FPS and frametimes: Current performance ratings

This is how to read the diagrams: The following diagrams show an average of many games per resolution. If you do not want to include certain titles in the average view, you can set this using the "Bearbeiten" button. By clicking on "+ XX Einträge", further tested CPUs can be displayed.

If a processor is clicked on in the ranking, it receives a performance index of 100 percent and all other test subjects in the same diagram are displayed with their relative speed. This makes it easy for everyone to understand what performance gain a faster model actually brings.

The test system for the following benchmarks was as follows:

• LGA-1200-, LGA-1700-, AM5- and AM4-platform
• GeForce RTX 4090 FE with GeForce 537.58
• Windows 11 Version 22H2 (22621.2428)
• Windows 11 "Core Isolation" and "Memory Integrity" (HVCI) on
• PCIe Resizable BAR (rBAR/SAM) an
• RAM settings: Official specs, see diagrams for timings

Testing was done in 720p to take the graphics card out of the equation as far as possible and to compare the processors as being in the "CPU limit". Why CPUs are tested in 720p resolution, but usually with high details in games, is still a topic of much discussion, even beyond ComputerBase and its large community. However, despite certain disadvantages, it is and remains the best analysis for processor performance in games in order to eliminate the graphics card as a brake, which should therefore also be the fastest in this resolution in order to raise a possible limit as high as possible.

The following diagrams contain the FPS achieved by the CPUs with a GeForce RTX 4090. "FPS" indicates how many frames per second are calculated on average in the 25-second test sequence, but not whether the game lags in between, possibly only between individual rendered frames.

In addition to the average FPS values, ComputerBase also uses frametime values specified in percentiles - more precisely the "99.8th percentile", which is specified in FPS and not in milliseconds for better comparability. But what exactly is that?

The measured values are classic frame times measured in milliseconds, i.e. the time intervals from frame to frame. The purpose of the percentile values is to ignore isolated outliers. The "99.8th percentile" therefore means that 99.8 percent of all measured values are faster than the specified measured value. If a value in the percentile diagram is 60 FPS, 99.8 percent are running at a higher frame rate than 60 FPS. 0.2 percent, on the other hand, are slower than 60 FPS.

High End: The fastest gaming CPUs from AMD and Intel

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the best gaming processor, followed by its little brother, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The Intel Core i9-14900K is left behind by 2 percent, and the Core i7 and Core i5 also perform well. This does not mean that Intel's CPUs are completely outperformed. However, they are in one respect: energy consumption. Here, AMD's solution is sometimes twice to three times (7800X3D) as efficient.

Even Intel's last attack on the crown in the form of the Intel Core i9-14900KS did not quite reach the target in the end. The Intel model is now almost as fast, but the energy requirement is even higher. In the end, this only confirms the top position around the two AMD X3D CPUs.

With the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, a worthy successor to the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D has been found. As the fastest AMD gaming CPU for the AM4 socket, it still has a right to exist because its price and that of the AM4 platform are significantly below the level of the Ryzen 7000 platform.

In terms of price, the Core i5-14600K also comes into focus for gaming PCs, which costs just over 300 euros. This CPU can easily form the basis for a comparatively inexpensive, yet very fast and modern gaming computer. You don't need a Core i9 for this - and Raptor Lake also runs on motherboards with a Z690- or B660-chipset, even including DDR4 if desired. The loss of performance when switching from DDR5 to DDR4 is minimal.

AMD Ryzen 7000 potentially had a harder time of it: the generation needs new AM5 mainboards. Although DDR5 is now inexpensive, the base price of the AM5 platform as a whole is now only slightly higher. However, AMD's price-performance recommendation for gamers still comes from the last generation (5800X3D).

Gaming under 200 euros: Currently (almost) only AMD

There has recently been a changing of the guard below 200 euros: after years of Intel dominance, it is now an AMD processor that is taking over thanks to an extremely low price. We're talking about the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F ab 167 Euro without active iGPU (internal graphics card). It is currently the best choice for entry-level gaming, as all comparable Intel solutions are well above the 200 euro mark in some cases.

And Intel? In this area, it's also worth taking a look at an older generation. A new Intel Core i5-14400F is currently still too expensive. But there is an Intel Core i5-12600KF that can do exactly the same and perhaps even a little more, which is already ab 170 Euro available. In terms of price, it is also almost on a par with the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F.

Under 100 euros: 6 cores are possible

In 2024, the answer to the question of the minimum CPU a gaming PC should offer for triple-A titles is clear: Four cores and eight threads are virtually obsolete, and even processors with six fast cores are often no longer sufficient for the last FPS with fast GPUs.

At the bottom of the list of the smallest gaming CPUs that are still viable this year are 6-core processors. The smallest choice in this segment is the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, which is offered as a WOF-variant (without fan, i.e. without a cooler) for very little money.

Gaming recommendations at a glance

Performance class	Recommendation	Price from	Buy
Highest performance	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D	ab 579 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D	ab 339 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
	Intel Core i9-14900K	ab 574 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
Enthusiast-Gaming	Intel Core i7-14700K	ab 427 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
The AMD AM4 Recommendation	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D	ab 275 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
Price-performance tip	AMD Ryzen 7 7500F	ab 167 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
The Budget Recommendation	AMD Ryzen 5 5600	ab 96 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
The smallest entry	AMD Ryzen 5 3600	ab 82 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon*

Recommendations: The fastest CPUs for applications

If the desktop PC is primarily used for modern, parallelized programs, AMD remains close to the top with the Ryzen 9 (without X3D). However, the lead has narrowed considerably as Intel has increased the number of CPU threads. It has now become a real neck-and-neck race in many areas. Intel almost always wins in single-core scenarios, but you have to take a closer look at multi-core. This is because AMD only wins at the very top, below which things quickly look very different, especially in terms of price.

Rendering, transcoding, video editing: current performance ratings

The best processor from AMD for modern software in the upper mid-range is the Ryzen 9 as an X- or non-X-version (the X3D clocks lower and is therefore slower). Intel's Core i9 doesn't have to hide as the Raptor Lake (refresh). In fact, Intel has really caught up here, even though the CPUs at the upper end still consume considerably more than those from AMD.

High End: AMD Ryzen 9 vs. Intel Core i9

In the end, the customer has to choose: If many threads are required, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is the best choice. If a mixed load and occasionally very high single-core performance are required, the Core i9-14900K is clearly ahead. And if that's not enough for you, you can go for a high-end desktop (HEDT) for the first time in years!

Mid-range: AMD Ryzen 7 versus Intel Core i5

A similar game is available for around 300 euros. The newcomer Intel Core i5-14600K offers a very high single-core performance and brings 20 threads to the floor with six large and eight small cores. The duel with AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 7700X is a close one, with the Ryzen 5 7600X already clearly lagging behind with only 6 cores and 12 threads.

AMD can no longer use the "can run on old platform" bonus card, as this has disappeared with Ryzen 7000: the new platform with socket AM5 only accepts DDR5, which has become extremely affordable. Whether Core i5-14600K or Ryzen 7 7700X is ultimately a personal decision, as models are hardly closer together anywhere else.

Core i7-14700K and Ryzen 9 7900X have also found their place. Significant price adjustments, especially at AMD, ensure that the Ryzen 9 7900X can now be the better choice depending on the preferred area of application. As an all-rounder, the Core i7-14700K is also a very good product with high gaming performance and only minimal lag in applications.

Entry level: Better old than new

AMD had left the entry-level business to Intel for over a year with Ryzen 5000, with CPUs below the Ryzen 5 5600X only appearing at the beginning of 2022. One of these solutions is the AMD Ryzen 5 4500, which, as the "Renoir-X", offers six Zen 2 cores and twelve threads without a graphics unit, but costs only ab 67 Euro. As the community rightly pointed out after the May update of this buying guide, there is also a WOF-version of the Ryzen 5 3600 ab 95 Euro. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 can also be an option, but then quickly costs ab 86 Euro.

At the beginning of 2024, AMD followed up with more Ryzen 5000s, but they don't really fill any gaps at a price difference of only around 20 euros compared to previous solutions. There are now many more CPUs in the region than there is actually space for.

	Cores/Threads	Clock Base/Turbo	L3	TDP	Price		Buy
					RRP	Market price*
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X	16/32	3,4/4,9 GHz	64 MB	105 W	799 Euro	ab 318 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X	12/24	3,7/4,8 GHz	64 MB	105 W	549 Euro	ab 265 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D	8/16	3,4/4,5 GHz	32+64 MB	105 W	489 Euro	ab 275 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X	8/16	3,8/4,7 GHz	32 MB	105 W	449 Euro	ab 175 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D	8/16	3,0/4,1 GHz	32+64 MB	105 W	249 USD	ab 216 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X	8/16	3,4/4,6 GHz	32 MB	65 W	299 USD	ab 149 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G	8/16	3,8/4,6 GHz	16 MB	65 W	359 USD	ab 159 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 7 5700	8/16	3,7/4,6 GHz	16 MB	65 W	175 USD	ab 152 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D	6/12	3,3/4,4 GHz	32+64 MB	105 W	230 USD	Special nur in den USA
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X	6/12	3,7/4,6 GHz	32 MB	65 W	299 Euro	ab 103 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT	6/12	3,6/4,6 GHz	16 MB	65 W	140 USD	ab 127 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G	6/12	3,9/4,4 GHz	16 MB	65 W	259 USD	ab 109 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5600	6/12	3,5/4,4 GHz	32 MB	65 W	199 USD	ab 96 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D**	6/12	3,0/4,0 GHz	32+64 MB	?
AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT	6/12	3,6/4,4 GHz	16 MB	65 W	125 USD	ab 102 Euro	Bestpreis*
AMD Ryzen 5 5500	6/12	3,6/4,2 GHz	16 MB	65 W	159 USD	ab 86 Euro	Bestpreis*
*lowest price in price comparison **not officially confirmed

Intel no longer looks so good in the segment in which the manufacturer has often been the sole ruler of late. At Intel, four cores in the form of a Core i3-12100F cost at least ab 89 Euro, below that there is only a Celeron - and with two Alder Lake cores it is really only suitable for rudimentary tasks and also costs ab 67 Euro.

And what about the Ryzen 7000 and Core i-14000? They simply remain too expensive in this segment! There are virtually no new CPUs in the entry-level segment - apart from a little more clock speed. Here it is definitely worthwhile to always go for a predecessor model.

Office recommendations at a glance

Performance class	Recommendation	Price from	Buy
Maximum performance HEDT*	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X	ab 5.070 Euro	Bestpreis*
Maximum performance DT	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X	ab 525 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
	Intel Core i9-14900K	ab 574 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
Upper class	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X	ab 369 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
	Intel Core i7-14700K	ab 427 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
The golden mean	Intel Core i5-14600K	ab 317 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
8-Core-Price-Tip	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X	ab 149 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
6-Core-Price-Tip	AMD Ryzen 5 5600	ab 96 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon* Alternate*
The smallest entry	AMD Ryzen 5 3600	ab 95 Euro	Bestpreis* Mindfactory* Amazon*
HEDT = High-end desktop on AMD TRX50 platform

High-end desktop (HEDT): AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 as the sole ruler

At the end of November 2023, AMD officially breathed new life into the HEDT segment with the Ryzen Threadripper 7000. The solutions around the new SP6 socket look the same as before, but are completely new: Zen 4 as the basis, plus DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. The processors are very fast and have de facto no competition.

However, they can prove this not only in classic applications and games, but also in more professional applications such as workstations. ComputerBase used multiple tests from a SPEC-benchmark suite and combined them into a rating.

The problem with the new HEDT processors is their price: it is very high. HEDT is not a mass product, even less so than it used to be. As a customer, you should explicitly know what you want to do with it, otherwise it won't pay off. At least nine out of ten customers are satisfied with a normal mainstream processor.

Model	Cores/Threads	L2-Cache	L3-Cache	Clock (Base/Turbo)	Memory Channels	TDP	MSRP	Price (Retail)
Ryzen Threadripper 7980X	64/128	64 MB	256 MB	3,2-5,1 GHz	4 × DDR5R-5200	350 W	4.999 USD	ab 5.070 Euro
Ryzen Threadripper 7970X	32/64	32 MB	128 MB	4,0-5,3 GHz	4 × DDR5R-5200	350 W	2.499 USD	ab 2.558 Euro
Ryzen Threadripper 7960X	24/48	24 MB	128 MB	4,2-5,3 GHz	4 × DDR5R-5200	350 W	1.499 USD	ab 1.582 Euro

The best CPUs (APUs) with integrated GPU (iGPU): AMD Ryzen 8000G is here!

When asked which manufacturer has the best CPU with a powerful graphics chip for desktop PCs in 2024, there is only one answer: AMD. However, the difference between the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 7 8700G is over 100 euros in terms of price, but only 20 percent in terms of graphics performance. The smaller variant is therefore sufficient for use with integrated graphics only and is ultimately the recommendation.

Since Ryzen 7000, the X and non-X-CPUs also offer an iGPU for the first time, but with only two CUs, the performance is significantly lower than with the G-CPUs of the Ryzen 8000 generation.

Performance class	Processor recommendation	Price from	Buy
Upper class	AMD Ryzen 5 8600G	ab 210 Euro	Bestpreis*

What's next: AMD "Ryzen 9000" and Intel Arrow Lake from summer/fall 2024

The start of 2024 marks the end of the new launches from AMD and Intel. What both had in common was that they were actually based on old chips that had been available for at least a year, some of which were even up to three years old at heart.

There will be real innovations from the summer or fall of 2024. At AMD, Zen 5 is scheduled for the second half of the year, with solutions planned for desktops, notebooks and servers. At Intel, Arrow Lake will take over in a new socket in the desktop.

More buying advice, comparisons, tests and rankings

A processor alone does not make a PC, other components are required - first and foremost the mainboard and RAM, and in gaming PCs also a graphics card.

The forum offers help in putting together complete PCs. Here, readers work on constantly updated articles that clarify what the ideal computer, including a suitable processor and all the other features, looks like for a specific budget.

At the top of the list is the compilation for the ideal gaming PC (so far only in German). It lists six basic configurations from 450 to 1,400 euros. Many of the CPUs mentioned above can be found there directly.

• The ideal gaming PC: Assemble your own gaming PC
• The ideal office PC
• The ideal mini-ITX gaming PC

In addition to our recommendations, it is always worth taking a look at the Mainboards and CPUs: Technical discussions report in the ComputerBase forum. There, well-informed members of the community provide assistance when it comes to questions about buying a new processor.

This article was originally published in German: Prozessor-Rangliste 2024: CPU-Vergleich mit AMD Ryzen 7000X3D und 14. Gen. Intel Core

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