Intel Core i9-12900HX vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Core i9-12900HX vs Core i9-13900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900HX 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-12900HX. Indeed, the Core i9-13900HX has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HX. The Core i9-13900HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.