https://www.pcgamer.com/core-i9-9900k-review/

The AMD versus Intel CPU wars have been going on for decades. Intel hasn't relinquished the crown for the best consumer processor since it launched the Core 2 Duo line in mid-2006, reclaiming it from AMD's Athlon 64 X2 line, and for nearly a decade after it held a significant performance lead. But that performance always came with a price, both on the processors as well as the motherboards and chipsets.

8-cores/16-threads

Base clock: 3.6GHz

L3 cache: 16MB

1k pricing: $488