Axator Brimshaw

"Z690 motherboard is not going to out-perform a Z790 (with 13900k)... unless the person building doesn't know how to configure said Z790 system. " Or, you are using an Asus z690 motherboard which restricted the i9-13900k performance. I believe this is fixed now with a driver update. Ive not seen any benchmarks on cinebench, except for the one attached which I came across on Tweaktown. Someone certainly knows how to configure their z690 system; perhaps you do not know how to configure your z790 ;-)

Gigabyte z690 aero D, Corsair DDR5 5200 64gb, 1tb Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NV Me Windows 11 Drive, ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 360, BeQuiet 802 case. Ive seen I9-13900K with Z690 motherboards outperform z790 builds and vice vera on geekbench. Really depends on components and how the i9-13900k is setup and if using latest m/b bios and drivers.