Intel's Core i9-13900K is a monster of a CPU, but recent instability concerns might make you want to consider some alternatives. Here are our favorites.
Intel ’s Core i9-13900K is one of the best processors you can buy. The 24-core behemoth can rip through productivity workloads with ease, and it’s easily one of the fastest gaming CPUs money can buy. Even with so much power under the hood, it’s not the right choice for everyone.
Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D The Ryzen 7 7800X3D can’t hold a candle to the Core i9-13900K when it comes to productivity workloads, but AMD’s chip shoots ahead with its gaming process. The humble eight Zen 4 cores are speedy enough for high-end gaming, but it’s AMD’s impressive 3D V-Cache tech that stands out. In some titles, such as Far Cry 6, it offers massively improved performance.
That only holds up if you primarily game on your PC, however. As mentioned, the Core i9-13900K is an absolute monster at productivity tasks, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D sometimes only reaches half the heights Intel can with its flagship CPU. This is a CPU for gamers above all else. Although the Core i9-13900K clearly has a lead in performance, the gap isn’t always large. For example, in Photoshop, the Core i9-12900K is 20% behind the 13th-gen CPU, but that gap shrinks to only 10% in Premiere Pro. In games, the difference is usually only a few frames, which is a performance gap that disappears as you climb to higher resolutions.
There are some apps that can take advantage of the massive core array available on the i9 CPU, but many apps run just fine with the Core i7-13700K. In Premiere Pro and After Effects, for example, the Core i7-13700K posts identical results to the more expensive i9 option. And in games, the two CPUs are basically indistinguishable.
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