Intel Core i7-13700T vs Intel Core i9-12900

Core i7-13700T vs Core i9-12900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700T beats the Core i9-12900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700T. Also, the Core i9-12900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700T has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-13700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.