Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i5-13600KF

Core i9-12900K vs Core i5-13600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Core i5-13600KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13600KF in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13600KF. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-13600KF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600KF outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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