Intel Core i7-12800H vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5807 points
11230 points
93% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7291 points
11803 points
61% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5382 points
11141 points
107% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5311 points
11262 points
112% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.49 points
346.75 points
101% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

16597 points
32623 points
96% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
24
71% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

28
40% slightly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
36 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

267th of 1,089
64th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-12800H vs Core i9-13900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900HX is faster than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12800H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13900HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-12800H. The Core i9-13900HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-12800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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