The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the new fastest kid on the block and the best CPU for pure gaming. Not only is the 7800X3D built for gaming, but it's also a lot cheaper than AMD's current flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D.
The $449/£439 eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D is $250 cheaper than the $699 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X3D, and yet it comes out faster in some of our games testing, making it a much wiser purchase choice if you're going to be using it primarily for a gaming PC. The big negative of going AM5 at the moment though is the cost of adopting the new platform, and that's also pointed out in our review of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
