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

Core i7-12700KF vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700KF is faster than the Core i5-13600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700KF has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600K outputs less heat than Core i7-12700KF thanks to a 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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.