While Intel has plenty of great processors up for grabs, there's only one you should be buying if you don't need a productivity workhorse.
While it’s true that Intel has no shortage of top-notch CPUs, there’s only one you should really be buying in 2024 for gaming purposes, and it’s well over a year old. It’s not that the other CPUs are bad — it’s that this processor is quite unmatched in terms of performance per dollar, and it’s more than good enough for most uses.
For starters, the Core i5-13600K is overshadowed by the Core i7-13700Kl; then, there are the two alternatives from Intel’s recent Raptor Lake refresh, meaning the Core i5-14600K and the Core i7-14700K. At its current price of , or for the KF version , the Core i5-13600K is difficult to beat in terms of value. To prove that, let’s go over the performance of these chips.
Even in productivity, the chips are very close, with nearly the same single-threaded performance and an up to 5% uplift in multi-threaded workloads. In truth, it’s nothing to write home about. The true value of the Core i5-13600K shows when you compare it to the 13900K in gaming, and it turns out that it achieves very similar frames compared to its much pricier sibling. Some games see bigger gains than others, but the 13600K is within a stone’s throw of the 13900K at 1080p, and no one is buying the 13900K for 1080p gaming, anyway.
Lastly, the Core i5-12600K. Intel made greater strides between Alder Lake and Raptor Lake than it did between the base version of Raptor Lake and the refresh, so it’s not quite as good, but it holds up. However, the 13600K is still the top pick thanks to its extra cores, higher clock speeds, and overall performance.
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