The Reviews Are in: AMD Is the New Gaming CPU King

The big selling point for Advanced Micro Devices' (NASDAQ: AMD) Ryzen line of PC CPUs, which the company launched in 2017, was many cores for not a lot of money. The chips excelled at tasks that could take full advantage of a lot of cores. The problem for AMD was that PC gaming is generally not one of those tasks.

AMD's first three generations of Ryzen processors offered compelling value for certain types of users, but rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) remained in the lead in terms of single-threaded performance. Modern PC games can use multiple cores to varying degrees, but the performance of a single core is often more important than the number of cores for overall performance.

With the Ryzen 5000 series, AMD's fourth generation of Ryzen desktop CPUs, the company has finally erased the one advantage that Intel has retained throughout the Ryzen era. Not only do the new Ryzen chips continue to do well in heavily multithreaded tasks, but they have also overtaken Intel in gaming performance. That would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Source Fool.com