Intel Core i9-12900HX vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i9-12900HX vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13980HX 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 i9-12900HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HX. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly 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.