Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8293 points

5% slightly better overall score

7843 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10420 points

13% slightly better gaming score

9212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7668 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

7473 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7563 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

7441 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7534 points

8216 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.04 points

219.22 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19648 points

2% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

19176 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

Identical

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

Identical

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

146th of 1,118

162nd of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900H vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900H is faster than the Core i5-13500HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-12900H and Core i5-13500HX are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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