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

Core i9-12900HX vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900HX performs better than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-12900HK 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 i9-12900HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Core i9-12900HX thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK 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 i9-12900HK.

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