The Intel Core i9 13900K (or the higher clocked Core i9 13900KS) is a 24-core, 32-thread number-crunching behemoth that excels at both gaming and productivity, offering strong performance in synthetic benchmarks and excellent single-core performance that dominates games in a neat package. It has been replaced by the slightly faster Intel Core i9 14900K in the past few months, which also touts AI overclocking profiles and Intel's new APO scheduling enhancements as reasons to be the current de facto flagship.