Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

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$ 184.46

$ 254.53 significantly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9422 points

16106 points

70% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12057 points

15771 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8581 points

16300 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8381 points

16541 points

97% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8019 points

16871 points

110% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.94 points

506.50 points

116% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

17491 points

41193 points

135% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11863 points

20147 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2478 points

3053 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

139% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

36 MiB

79% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12600K vs Core i9-14900K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K beats the Core i5-12600K in overall performance. 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 i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900K.

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.