Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Core i5-13400

Core i9-12900HK vs Core i5-13400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK is faster than the Core i5-13400. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13400. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. According to our data, the Core i9-12900HK and Core i5-13400 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13400 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13400.

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