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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700F is faster than the Core i9-12900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700F. Despite this, the Core i7-13700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-12900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.