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

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs Intel 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

6371 points

7843 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8680 points

9212 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5739 points

7473 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5626 points

7441 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7480 points

8216 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

178.23 points

219.22 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19282 points

0.55% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB

11.5 MiB

53% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

Identical

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 1,089

153rd of 1,089

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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900HK vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i9-12900HK and Core i5-13500HX have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.