We'll send breaking news and in-depth reviews of CPUs, GPUs, AI, maker hardware and more straight to your inbox. Ready for overclocking with an 18+1+1design, this modern board even supports the latest Wi-Fi 6E standard. And the linked article does mention better productivity performance of the 13600K, which is in accordance with what it says here.

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Join the experts who read Tom's Hardware for the inside track on enthusiast PC tech news — and have for over 25 years. Of course, you might want the extra CPU horsepower for other non-gaming tasks, which is a whole other matter. Both companies have their advantages: Intel has the highest peak overclocking frequencies we've ever seen but restricts full overclockability to K-series chips and Z-series motherboards.Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT), also known as Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), provides acceleration for memory intensive virtualized applications.

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AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X is a more evenly matched opponent for the Core i5-13600K, but here Intel has some notable advantages. The 13600K comes with 125W PBP (base) and 181W MTP (peak) power ratings, which is a 31W higher MTP than the previous-gen model.

Well, the hits keep on coming, Intel has managed to push the limits even further now with the 13th Gen CPUs, especially with the i9-13900K which has a crazy max turbo speed of 5.