Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i9-12900T vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-12900T also has slightly more L3 cache.

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