Intel Core i5-12600KF vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i5-12600KF vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12600KF. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-12600KF. 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 i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Core i5-12600KF thanks to a 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 i5-12600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.