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

Core i9-12900HK vs Core i5-13400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Core i5-13400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F 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 i5-13400F. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. Both the Core i9-12900HK and Core i5-13400F 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 i9-12900HK has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. The Core i9-12900HK also has slightly more L3 cache.

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