Was 2023 a memorable yr? Honestly, I do not know the way it simply flashed by so rapidly. I blinked, it was summer time, then as soon as extra and I discover myself collating the winners of the PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023. But, whereas it wasn’t a yr that noticed main new architectural advances in both gaming processors or graphics playing cards—it was a yr of refreshes in the principle—there was nonetheless an enormous quantity of nice PC gaming gear launched over the previous 12 months.For me, it has been a yr that is all about cellular {hardware}. For one factor, Nvidia’s RTX 40-series hitting gaming laptops result in a complete slew of good, highly effective objects of pocket book want. For one other, this was the yr that handheld gaming PCs actually got here of age. Sure, the Steam Deck actually pushed issues ahead in earnest final yr, however the AMD APUs on the coronary heart of this yr’s gadgets have given us some unimaginable handheld gaming PCs.And then the one actual architectural advance of the yr got here within the type of Intel’s inaugural Intel 4-based chip, Meteor Lake, and that was late in December and purely centered on laptops.While we would have been hoping, after the excesses of 2022’s graphics card pricing, that we would get some extra affordable {hardware} this yr. And whereas we most undoubtedly have gotten cheaper GPUs than the RTX 4090, they’re nonetheless not delivering the worth/efficiency uplift over the earlier era we had been hoping for. Still, AMD has delivered in each processor and graphics phrases, giving us the excellent Ryzen 7 7800X3D and the Radeon RX 7800 XT. Seriously, an AMD 7800-series PC goes to ship and do it for a reasonably affordable worth, too.There have additionally been nice displays—together with the perfect OLED to date—and a bunch of wonderful chairs, keyboards, mice, and extra this yr. But if there was the rest that made 2023 when it comes to PC tech it was that massive SSDs are lastly inexpensive, so it is no shock to see a 4TB drive representing. So, now you have seen the 2023 nominations, listed here are the winners of the PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023. Best gaming laptop computer of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best gaming monitor of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best gaming handheld of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best CPU of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best GPU of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best SSD of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best motherboard of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best gaming headset of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best microphone of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best gaming mouse of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:Best gaming keyboard of 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:The wildcard award 2023(Image credit score: Future)Honourable point out:
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