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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900H beats the Core i7-12800HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-13900H has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13900H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800HX. Also, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800HX also has slightly 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 i7-12800HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.