CyberPowerPC Ultra 3D5090

The best gaming chip and graphics card combine with predictable power: if you refuse to compromise, buy it

- TIM DANTON

PRICE £3,333 (£4,000 inc VAT) from tinyurl.​com/370cyber

Tina Turner's song springs to mind: by choosing the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics, CyberPowerPC has opted for simply the best gaming components. They have proven, through exhaustive benchmarking, to be better than all the rest. The question is whether this combination will give you everything you need.

If you're a gamer, then the simple answer is yes. Across the six games I tested with, at ludicrously tough settings with no assistance from DLSS 4, it only dipped below 60fps once: and that was by 1fps in Cyberpunk with RT Ultra settings. Once Ire-activated DLSS, it zoomed up to 132fps and looked as smooth as could be. The only other time this PC fell close to 60fps was in Black Myth: Wukong at Cinematic 4K. Dropping to Medium settings, which still look amazing, it averaged 109fps.

In every single one of my other tests, the CyberPowerPC Ultra 3D5090 sat comfortably in the three-figure range, with notable highlights - at 4K without DLSS, remember - being 173fps in Far Cry 6, 183fps in Borderlands 3, 172fps in Shadow of the Tomb Raider and 241fps in Dirt 5.