We test our fair share of gaming desktops here at Tom’s Guide, and pretty much all of them feature one of  Intel’s Core i series of CPUs. That’s about to change.

AMD has released its Ryzen processors, built on its “Zen” architecture, to take on Intel in the enthusiast, professional and gaming markets.

While no pre-built systems with Ryzen have landed in our labs just yet, you can still get a taste of how a Ryzen CPU will affect your gaming when compared to a chip from Intel. Our friends at our sister site Tom’s Hardware built their own computers with the new Ryzen 7 1800X GPU to see how it handles gaming(to see even more granular benchmarks, including detailed settings changes and number of other variables in their review, here).

AMD has also released three other series of chips: Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 an, on the more powerful end of the spectrum, the crazy-powerful Ryzen Threadripper.
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