If you are planning to buy new PC and thinking about buying new i9-11900K, then read this post and perhaps you will change your mind.

In short, this CPU MSRP price is the same as AMD 5900X. 5900X will be faster pretty much everywhere with 1-2 exceptions in games where it is slightly slower. But when it faster it often much faster than i9-11900K. Specially it is faster in productivity tasks. Moreover, 5900X consumes considerably less power. If you compare retail price, 5900X about $65 cheaper.

So, in short if you want faster CPU than consumes less power, buy AMD 5900X.

But if you Intel fan and AMD is not for you, then buy i9-10900K. It is faster in most