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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Core i9-12900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.

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.