Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Core i9-12900T vs Core i7-13850HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Core i7-13850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13850HX has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-12900T that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13850HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Core i7-13850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13850HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.