Intel Core i9-12900HX vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Core i9-12900HX vs Core i7-14700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700K has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-12900HX that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HX. The Core i7-14700K 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 i9-12900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.