Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

Core i5-12600 vs Core i9-9900KS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KS beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900KS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12600. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KS CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.