PC Gamer {Hardware} Awards: The very best CPUs of 2022

Last updated Dec 27, 2022

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Spoiled for alternative—I feel that is a good assertion to make of as we speak’s expertise shopping for a brand new gaming CPU. On the one hand, AMD is pumping out a gradual stream of fantastic Ryzen CPUs based on its ever-impressive Zen structure. On the opposite, Intel is again with much more cores and an ingenious hybrid structure within the thirteenth Gen, making swift work of video games and heavy-duty workloads alike.

It is powerful to select a single winner after we’ve had a 12 months replete with CPUs price shopping for. Even on the extra finances facet of issues, which admittedly has been somewhat ignored with the most recent era of chips, we have seen costs come crashing down on last-gen chips to all-time lows. Throughout Black Friday there was a Ryzen 7 5800X for $234 (it is a little extra now (opens in new tab) however nonetheless low-cost). A Ryzen 7!

It has been a superb time for the common-or-garden PC builder, spurred on by the ever-important competitors between two silicon goliaths: Intel and AMD. With these two at one another’s throats, it is us lot that is set to learn as clients. Larger core counts, sooner chips, extra frames—we actually would not be right here if solely one in all these massive firms was within the biz.

However just one can win our gear of the 12 months prize. Under are the three gaming CPUs we right here at PC Gamer really feel are price highlighting for some accolade motion this 12 months—you is perhaps considerably stunned by one in all them.

Discover out the winner of the PC Gamer {Hardware} Award for the most effective CPU for gaming in 2022 on New Yr’s Eve. All three stand an opportunity, even when there’s a little bit of favorite getting in.

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Jacob earned his first byline writing for his personal tech weblog from his hometown in Wales in 2017. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking issues as {hardware} author at PCGamesN, the place he would later win command of the equipment cabinet as {hardware} editor. These days, as senior {hardware} editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days reporting on the most recent developments within the expertise and gaming trade. When he isn’t writing about GPUs and CPUs, nevertheless, you will discover him making an attempt to get as far-off from the fashionable world as attainable by wild tenting.