Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Core i9-12900HK vs Core i7-13700HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700HX performs better than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-12900HK that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. The Core i7-13700HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.