AMD has released their second generation Ryzen processors and Intel has upgraded its Core i5 line to six cores. Which one should you go for in 2018, if you want the best gaming performance? Hardware.info has the answer!

Enough commotion in the processor market lately. Last year AMD fought back with Ryzen and Intel gave its mainstream processors more cores for the first time since the Core 2 Quad (from 2006!). Meanwhile, Ryzen 2 has been on the market for a while, where most of the teething troubles of the first generation are gone. In addition, Intel completed its Coffee Lake lineup a month or two ago.