Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Core i9-12900K vs Core i9-13900HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900HX beats the Core i9-12900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-12900K that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX 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.