Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i5-2300

Core i9-12900K vs Core i5-2300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Core i5-2300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-2300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2300. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2300 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.

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.