Today we’re taking an updated look at the gaming performance of the Ryzen 7 2700X and comparing it with more modern 8-core, 16-thread CPUs such as the Ryzen 7 5800X and Intel Core i7-11700K. The 2700X is a CPU that we really liked for productivity tasks, but weren’t entirely sold on its gaming performance.

At the time, we felt for gaming the Core i7-8700K was probably a better choice as it was faster in almost every instance and it was roughly the same price.
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