I am thinking about getting a pc set up with a 4080 and one of the two processors. Which one would be better for gaming purposes?
Intel Core i9-13900F or Intel Core i7-14700KF.
Not that it matters that much but the PC will also have 32 Gb of ram and a 1 tb ssd.
The 13900F has an 8/16 performance + 16 efficiency cores. It’ll boost around 5.6GHz but has memory overclocking locked.
14700KF has 8/16 performance + 12 efficiency cores. It’ll boost around 5.6GHz but memory overclock is unlocked or rather voltages are giving you more flexibility and slight better performance from ram alone.
They’re both F series so no iGPU
Unless you need +4 ecores for mulithread apps and production, I would go with the 14700KF and you can overclock it later if you want.
The 13900f only has locked core multipliers you can still use XMP on non-k CPUs