Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i9-12900F vs Core i5-13600HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Core i5-13600HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13600HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13600HX has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.