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

Core i7-12700KF vs Core i9-13900HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900HX beats the Core i7-12700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-12700KF that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.