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
Maybe we should stop thinking in categories of “i3, i5, i7” and really evaluate each chip on it’s own merit.
That might have been a useful shorthand several years ago, but it clearly doesn’t do the different chips within each “I”-family justice