Do you think it's worth upgrading from my i7 3770k to an i5 13600k?

[Maalv]

I think it's time to upgrade my computer. I've been considering stepping down a bit and going for an i5. Do you think I'll notice the difference?

[Omega]

What you will notice is that it is a significant upgrade.

[nullable]

The 13600k is significantly faster in single threaded processing. The 13600k is significantly faster in multi-threaded applications even just counting the p-cores. The 13600k has significantly more CPU power considering it has 14 cores and 20 threads to work with, compared to the i7 3770k 4c/8t.

No matter how you cut it the 3770k is like 11 years old, and there's been significant improvements in CPU's in that time.

So yeah, you should notice it. Unless notepad is your killer app.

[pasa]

Yeah, current i5 will run circles around your current i7 ;-). Within the family it's certainly the wisest choice. But if I were you, I'd switch to AMD, better performance at lower price and more importantly half the power use, so you can save a lot on cooler solution and related hassle.

I'm also similar shoes, replacing 3570k. Already bought the 7800x3d, the other pieces to get in upcoming month.

[_I_]

even a new i3 or pentium g will run circles around the 3rd gen i7

[Gio]

good update

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

3770K is basically ancient now so yeah it`s worth it.

[DonMcK]

Definitely notice the difference, a modern i5 is not a downwards move.

How much you'll gain depends on what you're doing with it. Extra cores / threads are good for productivity and the at 1080p the games that are CPU bound will see a big improvement.

At higher resolutions where the GPU takes more of the load then, if you have an older GPU, that could well bottleneck the CPU and reduce the benefits.

[Illusion of Progress]

This change would not be a step down. Names are names, and numbers are numbers. They are not performance.

The Core i3s from a handful of generations ago were running above that old 3770K. Anything from the quad core era (meaning the 7700K and back, getting worse the further you go back) is outdone by (almost) everything on the market now, and often by a wide margin.

A 13600K is easily many times the CPU that old Ivy Bridge is. It's likely over twice as fast per core (people overlook this because per core speed slowed down in gains for a bit after Sandy Bridge, but they picked up lately, and it's been over a decade of cumulative increases so those old CPUs are downright slow now just because of slow core speed no matter how you cut it). More cores. On modern platforms with much higher memory bandwidth as opposed to old DDR3. More CPU instructions and features. It goes on.

Now if you're instead asking about if you'll notice the difference by taking the 13600K instead of, say, the 13700K (as opposed to compared to your current Core i7), that's a bit of a different question. In that case it mostly comes down to "do you need the extra two p-cores/four e-cores or not" and I'm going to guess anyone still hanging onto a quad core probably falls into the "no I don't have very high threading needs" category. So the 13600K will likely be fine and you won't miss much if anything.