Intel Core i9-12900KS vs Intel Core i7-13700KF

Core i9-12900KS vs Core i7-13700KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700KF beats the Core i9-12900KS in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-12900KS and Core i7-13700KF are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-13700KF outputs less heat than Core i9-12900KS thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-12900KS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.