It blows my mind that AMD's best gaming CPU is this cheap today
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 8 cores, 16 threads | 5.0GHz max boost | 96MB L3 cache | 120W TDP | $449.99$359.38 at Amazon (save $90)
This CPU isn't just the best gaming processor you can get for your money, it's simply the best there is. It's just as fast as anything Intel has to offer and consumes far less power to boot. Of course, this isn't the best CPU at everything, as it's designed to be brilliant at gaming (check out our review here). For content creation and productivity tasks, you'll want a CPU with more cores and threads. Normally, the biggest downside to choosing the Ryzen 7 7800X3D was its price, but this deal counters that problem immediately.
Price check: Best Buy $399.99 | Newegg $399.99
When AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D dipped under $400 last week we were only too happy to recommend it as a good deal, and now it's seen another price cut thanks to Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sales it's an even more tempting slice of silicon to build your gaming PC around.
It's not the most powerful of AMD's latest Zen 4 processors to sport the gaming panacea of 3D V-cache, but it's the most relevant for PC gamers. Slapping a huge extra chunk of L3 cache directly on top of the 7800X3D's compute chiplet makes a big difference in terms of gaming frame rates, and because it's only sporting a single compute die Windows doesn't have any tricky choices to make as to what silicon to play games on.
That's where the Ryzen 9 7950X3D can struggle because it has one high clock speed chiplet and one 3D V-cache chiplet, and Windows has to figure out whether each application it's tasked with will prefer speed or cache. And it can sometimes get it wrong.
For the 7800X3D, however, there is no choice, just one chiplet that will nail high gaming
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