For the majority of people, the 13th Gen Intel i5-13600K is all you'll need. An i5 may be a "mid-range" processor, but in this day and age, I think we need to re-assess what that actually means.

Core i5-10210U vs. Ryzen 5 2500U When tossing up Core i5 versus Ryzen 5, there's a big performance advantage in CPU limited tasks for Intel's 10th-generation CPU.