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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Core i5-13500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13500T. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-13500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500T.

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