Best CPUs for Gaming Holiday 2023

As we prepare to move into the holiday period, the tinsel, glitz, and fanfare of festivities are on their way, but the CPU market looks pretty solid as we round out the end of the year. Intel recently launched their latest 14th Gen Core family to the market, with the Core i9-14900K spearheading things with 6.0 GHz out of the box. While impressive on paper, there's AMD's Ryzen 7000 series to contend with, with competitiveness at the top end of the market scorching right now, and that's not a pun. Stock levels look good on processors at popular retailers such as Amazon and Newegg, and many motherboards/DDR5 memory are floating around to satisfy demand. The CPU market, on the whole, looks strong as we move into the final stages of 2023.

Looking at a wider and broader overview of the current CPU market, the top end is dominated by the new Intel Core i9-14900K (8P+16E/32T) and AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X (16C/32T). An honorable mention does need to be made regarding the Core i9-13900K (8P+16E/32T), which, although it hails from Intel's previous 13th Gen family, is nearly identical to the new 14900K bar a bump to core frequencies. All three of these processors are similarly matched in compute performance, whereas the only 'real' gain separating them is in AVX-512/AVX2 workloads, as AMD's Ryzen 7000 does support these instruction sets. Other than that, it's very competitive at the top.



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