Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Core i7-13700K

Core i5-12600K vs Core i7-13700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700K is faster than the Core i5-12600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700K has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12600K that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700K. Despite this, the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-13700K outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.