Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Core i7-12700 vs Core i9-13900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900HX is faster than the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i7-12700. Indeed, the Core i9-13900HX has 24 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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