Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i9-12900T vs Core i5-13600HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600HX beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13600HX that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600HX has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 i5-13600HX 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 i5-13600HX.

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.