Tipping the scales even further in Intel’s favor, the Core i9-13900K also enjoys robust software support for its onboard media engine (helpful for content creators!) and somehow costs less than its Ryzen rival.
As a result, the Core i9-13900K holds the performance crown in gaming and single-threaded performance, while speeding through heavily multi-core tasks at a 40 percent faster clip than before. The last-gen Core i9-12900K already impressed, but Intel managed to cram twice as many efficiency-focused “E” cores into the new chip, while simultaneously cranking clock speeds to blistering new 5.8GHz levels.
AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X may have landed the first blow in this new CPU generation, and it’s a mighty foe indeed-but Intel’s 24-core Core i9-13900K is better.
