Intel Core i5-12600KF vs Intel Core i7-13700H

Core i5-12600KF vs Core i7-13700H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700H beats the Core i5-12600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12600KF that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700H. Despite this, the Core i7-13700H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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