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Best gaming CPUs 2026

Games rarely use every core at once: single-core speed and cache size matter more. That is why chips with a large L3 cache (AMD X3D) rank higher here than in the overall list.

# CPU Type Task score L3 cache Score
1 Ryzen 9 9950X3D Desktop
100.0
 128 MB 100.00
2 Ryzen 9 7950X3D Desktop
92.4
 128 MB 87.61
3 Ryzen 7 9800X3D Desktop
89.4
 96 MB 59.36
4 Ryzen 7 7800X3D Desktop
81.1
 96 MB 49.31
5 Ryzen 9 9950X Desktop
76.0
 64 MB 100.00
6 Ryzen 9 9900X Desktop
72.1
 64 MB 80.49
7 Ryzen 7 5800X3D Desktop
71.8
 96 MB 38.14
8 Ryzen 9 7950X Desktop
68.7
 64 MB 89.63
9 Ryzen 7 5700X3D Desktop
68.6
 96 MB 34.46
10 Core Ultra 9 285K Desktop
65.5
 36 MB 90.61
11 Ryzen 9 7900X Desktop
65.3
 64 MB 72.58
12 Core i9-14900K Desktop
63.5
 36 MB 82.96
13 Ryzen 7 9700X Desktop
61.7
 32 MB 58.31
14 Core i9-13900K Desktop
61.5
 36 MB 79.58
15 Core Ultra 7 265K Desktop
61.0
 30 MB 79.26
16 Ryzen 5 9600X Desktop
59.4
 32 MB 49.02
17 Core i7-14700K Desktop
58.3
 33 MB 72.52
18 Core i7-13700K Desktop
54.8
 30 MB 63.13
19 Ryzen 7 7700X Desktop
54.7
 32 MB 53.14
20 Ryzen 9 5950X Desktop
54.7
 64 MB 65.39
21 Core Ultra 5 245K Desktop
54.7
 24 MB 60.91
22 Ryzen 7 7700 Desktop
53.5
 32 MB 50.07
23 Ryzen 5 7600X Desktop
52.7
 32 MB 44.68
24 Ryzen 9 5900X Desktop
52.2
 64 MB 53.58
25 Core i5-14600K Desktop
51.8
 24 MB 55.56

Compare the top two: Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D →

How we rank

Formula: 60% single-core speed, 10% multi-core, plus a bonus for L3 cache. In-game FPS depends more on the graphics card than on the CPU.

The score is our own estimate from the specs (cores, threads, clocks, architecture generation), not a benchmark run. 100 = the fastest CPU in our database.