Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i7-12700K vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13980HX performs better than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX.

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