AMD Ryzen 5 9600X review – now my favorite budget gaming CPU

I can’t fathom what AMD was thinking when it gave this CPU a bizarrely inflated $279 price tag when it first launched in 2024, but I’m very glad to see that the price has now plummeted to a much more sensible level. Not only that, but you can also now give the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X a power boost, as long as you have a decent CPU cooler. As such, I thought it was about time I put it through its paces in our benchmarks, in a full 9600X review, to see if it’s now worth buying.

This AMD Zen 5 CPU picks up from where the Ryzen 5 7600X left off, and while it only has six cores, that’s still plenty for most games, and those cores are also full-fat ones based on AMD’s latest Zen 5 architecture. There’s no 3D V-cache, as you’ll find on AMD’s pricier X3D chips, but at $192.99, this still looks like a decent foundation for a new gaming rig if you don’t have huge amounts of cash to splash. Is this sub-$200 chip a new contender for our guide to buying the best gaming CPU? Let’s find out.

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