vikramr VI

Best CPU for a high end gaming build right now?

Building a new rig mostly for gaming at 1440p, some streaming on the side. Budget isn't tight but I don't want to pay for cores I'll never use. Torn between AMD and Intel and the benchmarks I find all disagree. What would you go with?
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frank_55 Nov 12, 2026
vikramr
for gaming specifically i'd look at whichever 8-core ryzen x3d chip is current. the extra cache is what helps in games, and they've topped the gaming charts for a while now. you don't need 16 cores for a bit of streaming on the side if you use the gpu encoder. the benchmarks disagree mostly because some test at 1080p and some at 4k, so look at the 1440p results for your case.
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