CPU for Gaming

Finding the best budget gaming AMD CPU in is harder than it looks. AMD now sells everything from a $83 Ryzen 5 5500 to a $377 Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and the gap between them is wider than the price suggests. I spent the last 60 days benchmarking 12 of AMD’s most popular budget gaming chips […]

Streaming while gaming is one of the most demanding tasks you can throw at a CPU. Your processor has to run the game at high frame rates, encode video in real time, manage OBS overlays, handle chat bots, and keep Windows responsive in the background. If your CPU cannot keep up, your viewers see stutter