Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i9-12900H vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900H beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has 14 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX.

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