Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core i5-14500

Core i9-12900KF vs Core i5-14500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KF beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900KF has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14500. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.