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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We can boil down productivity application performance into two broad categories: single- and multi-threaded. The first slide above shows the geometric mean of performance in several of our most important tests in each category, but be sure to look at the expanded results in the above album. OS: Windows Server 2022 family* Windows Server 2016 family* Windows Server 2019 family* Windows Server 2012 R2 family* Windows 11 Family* Windows 10 Family* Windows 8.1 Family* For as long as I can remember, I've had love of all things tech, spurred on, in part, by a love of gaming. I began working on computers owned by immediate family members and relatives when I was around 10 years old. I've always sought to learn as much as possible about anything PC, leading to a well-rounded grasp on all things tech today. In my role at PCMag, I greatly enjoy the opportunity to share what I know.

Intel Core i5 13600K vs i5 13600 - NanoReview Intel Core i5 13600K vs i5 13600 - NanoReview

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). 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.

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All in all, the Core i5-14600K did exactly as we expected in testing, matching the Core i5-13600K in almost every way. However, the difference is so slim as to leave us questioning why we would recommend it over the previous generation. We can’t really see any advantage to owning the Core i5-14600K over the Core i5-13600K, and we actually can see some disadvantages to it. Drivers and Software: Intel. Not sure what this is supposed to even mean. I do know I've never seen AMD win or tie in it though so it seems it's there just to get another win. Both are generally just fine with the occasional problem now and then. I'd call it a tie.

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Raptor Lake consumes more power than Alder Lake, but it is also much faster than its predecessor, earning it some leeway. Nevertheless, as we see in our renders-per-day measurements, AMD still holds the advantage in efficiency and all key power criteria. Intel's system consumes more power, resulting in higher thermal output. Intel Core i5-12400F, Core i7-12700, Core i5-13400, Core i7-13700 and Core i7-13700K compared, provided by SchenkerRegardless of whether you are looking at an Alder Lake S or a Raptor Lake S CPU, all the processors we tested held up pretty well. However... Price higher than equivalent last-gen chip, Power-hungrier than before, Runs hotter than Core i5-12600K The increased power draw has an effect, though — the 7700X and 7600X have a 105W TDP rating and a max power draw of 142W, the highest power consumption of the Ryzen 7 and 5 chips yet.It's also much higher than the previous-gen’s 65W TDP rating. The Ryzen chips are designed to use the full thermal headroom available to deliver more performance, so they can safely operate at 95C under heavy load. We don’t see that much with the Ryzen 7 and 5 models, though.Specifications: Intel. This looks like nothing more than a repeat of CPU Pricing and Value. In other words, just a way to give Intel another win.