(Hardware) These are the best CPUs for gaming, office and professional from Intel and AMD

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The fundamental piece when assembling a new PC is the choice of the CPU, which involves the rest of the system, since from it we are going to choose the rest of the system. But, not all CPUs are suitable for everyone, that is why we have made a selection of the Intel and AMD CPUs that we consider the best for desktop PCs.

If you are looking to buy a new CPU to have a more powerful PC, it is most likely that you have lost yourself among a huge collection of Intel and AMD models among those that are available in the market, that is why we have thought about making one list of what we consider to be the best CPU you can buy right now.

Our selection criteria
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The huge range of CPUs from Intel and AMD makes it difficult to choose a CPU in each category without first doing a general screening of all of them. That is why we have decided to carry out a selection scale, which first consists of a series of elimination criteria to discard a large number of CPUs included in the market.

The first elimination criterion is the number of cores, today a 4-core configuration is insufficient for the future, so all Intel and AMD CPUs that have a 4-core configuration have been discarded. In the same way, most applications do not take advantage of the capacity of a CPU beyond 8 cores, so all CPUs that exceed that figure have been discarded from our comparison.

The second criterion is the selection of the generations of the different CPUs. On the one hand we have reduced the Ryzen 5000 by AMD, while in the case of Intel we have chosen the eleventh generation by Intel with the exception of the Core i9-10900F as there is no CPU with more than eight tenth cores. generation.
The third selection criterion is based on discarding those CPU models that are part of the OEM world and therefore cannot be purchased separately in conventional distribution chains as of the day of writing the article.
Once we have marked the selection criteria, let's see which are the best Intel and AMD CPUs of the moment. That is why we have separated the selection into several different sections according to the number of cores of each processor.

The best 6-core CPUs from Intel and AMD
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The first turn is that of the CPUs with six cores in total, of which we have selected three representatives to compete with each other. On the Intel side we have their Intel Core i5-11600K based on the Rocket Lake architecture and the Intel Core i5-11400F based on the same architecture, while on the AMD side we have chosen the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X.

The reason why we have chosen this CPU is for its excellent value for money, since we can find it in most places for less than 200 euros. It is a six-core, 12-thread CPU that starts from a base clock speed of 2.6 GHz but increases to 4.4 GHz when placed in turbo mode.

Its excellent relationship between its power and its price make it ideal for those who want to build a Gaming PC or a professional workstation for a very low price. Its only limitation? The fact of not bringing with it an integrated graphics, but it is something that is forgiven given that it is an ideal CPU if you want a gamer PC to play Full HD or Quad HD if you pair it with a good graphics card.