Finish the year and seeing the price drop of some of the most sought after processors is a good time to make a brief summary of what this 2019 has brought us in terms of CPUs and gaming. Therefore, this article will focus on the best gaming processors within the resolution most used by players today: 1080p. What models will the cat take to the water?
Intel Core i3-9100F
Although it may not seem like it, this CPU is the tremendous winner in terms of quality / performance / price today. And we are talking about a CPU that barely reaches 90 euros and offers an absolutely magnificent ratio in terms of gaming even with its 4 cores without HT.So much so, that it surpasses very well priced CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 1800X and nothing is far from the Ryzen 5 3600, currently leading sales.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Just a couple of steps above we find this veteran 6-core processor with SMT , which continues to bring joy to many users. Although it is somewhat far in IPC and frequency of its counterpart in Zen 2, its price is currently a claim that is difficult to miss.
In addition, its number of cores already leaves room for other heavier tasks apart from gaming, making it a very complete CPU today.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
It is the fashionable CPU at present, and well deserved that it has it: tight price, good CPI, enough cores and threads, unlocked and a fairly contained consumption. It suffers from the lower frequency within the Zen 2 and that limits its performance in gaming, but it compensates with all that has been said, it is not in vain that it is a sales leader today.
Intel Core i5-9400F
Enter the list thanks to the exorbitant price of his brother and predecessor i5-8400. This i5-9400F has all its virtues and only the defect of not including iGPU. We are talking about a six-core CPU without HT at 4.1 GHz that has been earned in its own right to be on this list due to its great gaming performance.
Not including HT is an advantage in certain games with worse programming for multiple threads, so it amounts to headland positions in all tables, which together with its more than competitive price make it an option rather than take into account.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
It is currently one of the CPUs we have in the test equipment and we can talk long and hard about it. We talk about a CPU that can be placed among the 8 best processors today, something that is worthy given the competitive price it has.
He shares cores and wires with his younger brother, but increases his frequency to “4.4 GHz” in a single core.
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
He has achieved what seemed impossible at first: eclipse the 3700X and 3800X. But according to its best performance, its 12 cores and especially its frequency in single core , it achieves a better performance than these. It is a CPU focused on both multitasking and gaming, being a strange case within the sector, since with these characteristics its rivals fail to perform as much in games.
Intel Core i7-8700K
Many have taken it for granted since the departure of the i9-9900K and its different versions, but the reality is that we are talking about a TOP 3 processor today and with the permission of the i9-9900KS which is a limited version.
Six cores and 12 wires, 4.7 GHz frequency , unlocked, non-welded processor so we can make delid without any problem. Its only downside is that its performance is consistent with its price and where its direct rival by characteristics is much lower in cost.
It is up to each one to see if he compensates for that appreciable jump in gaming performance or bonus plus saving those euros for another component.
Intel Core i9-9900K
He has been the king of gaming in all resolutions and for having since its departure, but since the i9-9900KS was launched it has lost some of its brightness. The shortage of Intel CPUs has caused its price and stock to suffer, so currently we will pay more for it if we want to get our services.
In any case, its performance is TOP 1 or TOP 2, depending on whether we compare it with its faster KS version, where its 8 cores and 16 threads at 4.7 GHz and 5 GHz in single core catapult it to the top of the board.
Therefore we are facing the king of gaming in terms of performance, which will lead us to a fairly high cost that will only be recommended for those who want to maximize the performance of their expensive GPU to the limit.
