Intel Core i9-12900HX vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i9-12900HX vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HX is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14600K. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HX has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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