The Intel Core i7 13700K quickly became (and remains) one of the most desirable all-around CPUs for both gaming and general productivity use cases when it launched in the fall of 2022. Housing an impressive 16 cores in a big.LITTLE configuration (eight larger higher-clocked performance cores coupled with eight smaller, lower-clocked efficiency cores), the 13th generation CPU is a somewhat more affordable alternative to the i9 lineup of Intel processors that offers similar gaming performance with a discrete GPU.