Intel® Core™ i5-13600K Desktop Processor 14 cores (6 P-cores + 8 E-cores) 24M Cache, up to 5.1 GHz

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Content Creation/Productivity: Intel. Should be a tie. Intel wins single thread, AMD multi thread. After those first graphs there are six (!) graphs comparing Alder Lake to Zen 3, which is not relevant anymore. Use conditions are the environmental and operating conditions derived from the context of system use.

Intel Core i5-13600K Review | PCMag

The Intel Core i5-13600K is (to our mind) 13th-gen Intel’s best gaming CPU. It has the best price-to-performance balance in the whole series, so it’ll ensure great results in any game that you put it against.

This one seems more fair then articles like this in the past. Intel benefits on the lower end because of the E-cores. I am glad that there is a new thread here to post in. Maybe you heard about my complaints in another thread, one of which was that I could not not have any input as to what was wrong. Here is what I wrote, and for the article I cited I think it was pretty damning. As I said, this one appears more fair.

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ASUS has developed an extensive VRM setup. With the aid of the substantial heatsinks, it has constructed a huge 16+1-phase 90A power circuit. This involved cooling solution and the VRM setup are more than sufficient to suit the Intel Core i5 13600K without problems. Nice comparison of the cheaper current-gen CPUs. And Intel sure offers more options at the moment, such as being able to use a Z690 MB, one may already have with DDR4, to upgrade the CPU with. Well, the hits keep on coming, Intel has managed to push the limits even further now with the 13th Gen CPUs, especially with the i9-13900K which has a crazy max turbo speed of 5.8 GHz. In all of our single-core and single-thread tests, the 13900K took... I think 3DCenter does the community a great service with these comparisons, and I encourage folks to reference them as a general indicator of what to expect. You can also use them to benchmark our benchmarks, as it were.

Myself, I recently upgraded from a DDR3 rig, and went for DDR5. Which is not specifically needed for gaming (as even DDR3 still works). But from what I understand, DDR5 should work better with a many-cores CPU than DDR4 does. And my gaming time goes mostly on simulations, open-world games, and strategies, with use-cases such as modding Cities: Skylines to allow for more than 9 tiles to build in, where even 9 tiles can be quite demanding on hardware (possibly leading to lag, which has nothing to do with the GPU). Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html for details. So I went for DDR5, with "just" a Ryzen 5 7600X for the time being though - and I will eventually upgrade the CPU to possibly one with 3D V-Cache later. All of our testing uses DDR5, though we do link to Raptor Lake DDR4 testing and mention multiple times that this can cost around a 4% performance loss, on average. We also reference both DDR4 and DDR5 pricing in all the relevant areas.