Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Core i7-12700 vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13600K performs better than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-13600K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.