Best answer: AMD`s new Ryzen 9 3900X is great for gaming, especially if you pair it with a capable GPU.
Buy your own Ryzen: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X ($500 at Amazon)
Keeping up with Intel`s Core i9-9900K
Intel boasts about the single-core performance of the Core i9-9900K and rightly so as it`s really good. The processor is fantastic for gaming, since modern games need more cores to run, but it also has great per-core performance, which is something AMD has struggled with in the past. Before Ryzen came along, AMD continued to increase the core and thread count without catching up to Intel with performance on each core.
Enter the Ryzen 9 3900X, which is set to take on Intel`s Core i9-9900K and, fortunately, AMD has done a stellar job at matching single-core performance. What this means for games is an increased frame rate, which puts both processors up at the top of comparison charts, depending on which game you happen to be analyzing. Since the 9900K is Intel`s `best gaming CPU,` this mak...
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