To summarize our list: AMD is the way to go, at least for the current generation. While Intel’s 13th- and 14th-gen Raptor Lake processors are great in benchmarks, the widespread stability issues, poor ...
so we’ll just list them instead: Thankfully, you won’t encounter most of the suffixes when shopping for a processor. The important ones to remember are F and K for Intel desktop processors.
The Intel Core i7-12700K was our testing rig's processor of choice for a time, and it offers similar performance to the 13th Gen i5 that's at the top of this list. That processor is actually ...