Just sharing my views on this processor.
I always thought about i5 as slow processors, but I was checking the benchmarks and its amazingly fast and in gaming some cases even defeated i9 13900k
Intel Core i5-13600K Review | PCMag
The single core performance is really strong almost (slightly less) around Ryzen 9 7950X.
And now the prices are reasonable. Intel has done a great job with raptor lake 13th gen
I have the 13600k and have been saying it for ages, this CPU is an absolute beast for the money, it’s literally nothing less than amazing.
For a so called i5 model, it performs nothing like one, I’m fairly sure that this was the very model that caused Intel to officially announce that they were going to use a new model naming scale, because this CPU no longer lined up with what each model was supposed to be capable of.
Even if you pair this thing with a 4090 vs a 13900k and 4090, at 1080p which is the worst case scenario for the CPU, the 13900k only averages about 7% more performance, and lets be honest, the 13900k is just a savage in comparison, so that is seriously high praise for the 13600k for gamers.
I’ve played around lightly with a very basic overclock, which only consisted with nothing more than changing the multiplier so the P cores were at 5.4ghz and the E cores at 4.2ghz, no cache change, no additional voltage or anything fancy, and i gained almost 10% of additional performance in Cinebench straight up.
It just has so much potential, it undervolts more than the i7 and i9, and from what I’ve seen, you can gain up to 20% overall performance through overclocking and bring the P cores to something like 6.1ghz, which is just insane, honestly worth every cent.