Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Core i7-13650HX

Core i9-12900F vs Core i7-13650HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Core i7-13650HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13650HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores than the Core i7-13650HX. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i7-13650HX. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13650HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.