Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i5-12500H vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Core i9-13900H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500H. Also, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500H.

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 i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.