AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Trying to figure out the best CPU for your next PC upgrade or DIY build? With apologies to Robert Frost, it's the classic two roads that parted in the wood—if the wood were a shopping-results page at Newegg or Amazon, and the road kept dividing...

These days, you're not suffering for choice if you're shopping for a new desktop CPU. Far from it! And that's true whether you're buying a new processor to build a gaming rig, one packed with cores for speedy content creation or media crunching, or a...

Gaming has always been a huge deal but it gained even greater significance in the past year of the pandemic. Left with nowhere to go, many people turned to their PCs, consoles, and phones, to while away the hours and the days. Regardless of what kind of...

With the Ryzen 5000 series, it's fair to say that AMD has finally, and fully, eclipsed Intel's performance dominance in desktop PCs. AMD's flagship $799 Ryzen 9 5950X has landed in our labs, boasting 16 cores and 32 threads bristling with the potent new...

AMD has done it again! Their new Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processors bring yet another huge generation-over-generation improvement. Many years ago, the naysayers had talked about AMD just grabbing the low-hanging fruit, and that these gains would soon be history—guess not. The new Ryzen 5000 processors have been rearchitected from the ground up, with impressive results.

Strong in multi-threaded, lightly threaded, and single-threaded tasks ranging from rendering to gaming, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is a superb option at a little over £500 and represents excellent balance in AMD’s Zen 3 product stack.

AMD buscaba más madera en gaming con sus Ryzen 5000 y desde luego que lo ha conseguido. Ya sabíamos de antemano que la potencia en renderizado y procesamiento bruto iba a ser muy superior a las CPU de Intel y así ha sido, además este 5900X no está lejos del precio de su rival i9-10900K.

Ryzen 9 5900X naturally brings the same goodness to the table. Excelling in gaming thanks to Zen 3, it's much faster than rival Intel's premier 10-core processor for rendering tasks. Pricing is more key for this second-rung chip as it will go into a wider range of enthusiast systems, and £510 seems a fair outlay for a rudely capable processor.