Currently, those upgrading from a 12th-gen or older CPU should go with the Core i9-14900K. It’s about $50 more expensive than the Core i9-13900K, and it brings some solid performance improvements.

It might have temporarily taken the gaming performance crown with Zen 4, but Intel’s response is a strong one, and at $589, the 13900K is priced more than $100 less than AMD’s $699 Ryzen 9 7950X.