Intel's hybrid architecture has really come into its own with the Core i9 13900K. Throw it at any problem, and it's likely going to solve it in record time. Now for some PC builders, that's an ...

While the 13900K beats AMD’s top 7950X Ryzen 7000 CPU in the majority of my gaming tests at 1080p, AMD’s impressive 5800X3D still looms large over both the Zen 4 and Intel’s 13th Gen chips ...

The 13th gen Intel Core i9-13900K is a powerhouse CPU that offers up a similar experience to the latest 14th-gen chips, and its price makes it worth buying over new SKUs.

Still, the Core i9-13900K just edged out the Ryzen 9 7950X, but didn't offer anything more than the Core i9-12900K.

Both the Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K come with the same recommended price from Intel: $590. These are flagship chips, and you should expect to spend close to $600 for either processor.

The existence of Intel's Core i9-13900KS was confirmed last autumn - a CPU based on the powerful Core i9-13900K except with a bumped-up frequency that's notw able to hit 6GHz on up to two cores.

Comparing 12th-gen chips to 13th-gen ones, Intel says the i9-13900K should be around 15 percent faster than the i9-12900K in single-threaded tasks and 40 percent faster at multi-threaded workloads.