Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i5-11600K vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK is faster than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600K. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.