Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 284.79

$ 4.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

10% slightly better overall score

12025 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

14272 points

0.27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

11307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

11156 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

10606 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

303.53 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27005 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

24491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

16100 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

2838 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.3 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900K vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14600K 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 i5-14600K. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900K. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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