Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Core i9-11980HK vs Core i5-12600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Core i9-11980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-11980HK has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600KF CPU because of its 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.