What counts in the end: Who offers the best package? And a super-fast processor alone is not enough. The test winner was Intel's Core i7-14700K. The 20-core processor was extremely fast, its graphics chip offered a decent speed and it left nothing to be desired in terms of energy consumption...

In testing with initial benchmarks, the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X shows significant performance gains compared to its predecessor - 10 to 30 per cent, sometimes even more. In addition, you get a quite powerful integrated GPU. However, all this comes at a price: both the necessary cooling performance and the system performance grow, and even the purchase price moves into the next higher performance class.

The 7900X is the new number 1 among the top CPUs - AMD is thus extending the gap to its big rival Intel. And because the Ryzen 7000X processors now also have a graphics chip on board, there is less and less reason to buy the competitor's chips. However, the 7600X could not beat its cheaper rival 12600K.