AMD Ryzen 5 7600

All of which means that, at the time of writing, if you want a gaming processor the Ryzen 5 7600 is the one to buy, almost regardless of budget. Naturally if you spend 50% of your time editing videos for YT or whatever then look elsewhere, but be honest with yourself. Particularly as AMD have been ultra-aggressive with the pricing of the Ryzen 5 7600.

Adding 65W Ryzen CPU SKUs, AMD has furthered the availability and reach of it new AM5 platform.

The six physical cores are excellent for gaming and any other tasks you'd perform on the PC. It's capable of handling some rendering, too, though results will (as expected) be a far cry from what's possible with a more powerful processor. Even though Intel is winning the core count game with the Intel Core i5-13600K, we don't expect there to be much to differentiate the two in terms of performance.

Priced at $230, the Ryzen 5 7600 is a huge improvement to the value proposition of the Zen 4 platform. It's considerably cheaper than the 7600X ($300), yet runs virtually as fast. As mentioned before, a heatsink is included, too, so that's at least another $20 saved, unless you're reusing your existing cooler, when upgrading from Socket AM4, for example.