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Best CPUs for office work and study 2026

For documents, a browser with a dozen tabs and video calls, raw power is not the point. What matters is efficiency: longer laptop battery life and a quiet PC.

# CPU Type Task score TDP Score
1 Ryzen 7 9700X Desktop
100.0
 65 W 58.31
2 Core i7-12700 Desktop
89.2
 65 W 52.02
3 Ryzen 7 7700 Desktop
85.9
 65 W 50.07
4 Ryzen 5 9600X Desktop
84.1
 65 W 49.02
5 Ryzen 7 8700G Desktop
83.5
 65 W 48.69
6 Ryzen 9 7950X3D Desktop
81.4
 120 W 87.61
7 Core Ultra 9 285K Desktop
80.8
 125 W 90.61
8 Ryzen 9 9900X Desktop
74.8
 120 W 80.49
9 Core i9-14900K Desktop
74.0
 125 W 82.96
10 Core i9-13900K Desktop
71.0
 125 W 79.58
11 Core Ultra 7 265K Desktop
70.7
 125 W 79.26
12 Ryzen 5 7600 Desktop
70.6
 65 W 41.16
13 Ryzen 5 8600G Desktop
69.8
 65 W 40.70
14 Core i5-14400F Desktop
69.6
 65 W 40.61
15 Ryzen 9 5950X Desktop
69.4
 105 W 65.39
16 Ryzen 5 7500F Desktop
69.1
 65 W 40.29
17 Core i5-13400F Desktop
68.5
 65 W 39.92
18 Ryzen 7 5700X Desktop
66.5
 65 W 38.77
19 Ryzen 5 8400F Desktop
66.3
 65 W 38.65
20 Ryzen 9 9950X Desktop
65.6
 170 W 100.00
21 Ryzen 9 9950X3D Desktop
65.6
 170 W 100.00
22 Core i7-14700K Desktop
64.7
 125 W 72.52
23 Core i7-11700 Desktop
60.5
 65 W 35.29
24 Ryzen 9 7950X Desktop
58.8
 170 W 89.63
25 Ryzen 5 5600X Desktop
57.4
 65 W 33.47

Compare the top two: Ryzen 7 9700X vs Core i7-12700 →

How we rank

Formula: our score divided by TDP (speed per watt), among CPUs that are not too slow (score 25 or more).

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.