Just sharing my views on this processor.
I always thought about i5 as slow processors, but I was checking the benchmarks and its amazingly fast and in gaming some cases even defeated i9 13900k
Intel Core i5-13600K Review | PCMag
The single core performance is really strong almost (slightly less) around Ryzen 9 7950X.
And now the prices are reasonable. Intel has done a great job with raptor lake 13th gen
Honestly I feel like I can compared the 13th gen to the Pascal architecture of NVIDIA’s 10 series GPUs, both have great value, they perform really well in their generation, and it’s overall fun to use.