Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i9-12900K vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13980HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX 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.