Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Core i7-13800H

Core i5-12600K vs Core i7-13800H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the Core i7-13800H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-13800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13800H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12600K that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13800H. Despite this, the Core i7-13800H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.