Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i9-12900K vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.