The Core i9-10900K has plenty to offer, but AMD's shadow looms large in this segment.

Intel debuted the Comet Lake microarchitecture in 2019 with low-power designs in the Comet Lake-U series, and followed it up with Comet Lake-H for notebooks earlier this year. But we're interested in the desktop side of things, and Intel rolled out a slew of exciting options in the Comet Lake-S series two months ago.