Intel Core i9-14900HX vs Intel Core i9-12900

Core i9-14900HX vs Core i9-12900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900 beats the Core i9-14900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i9-12900 has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900. The Core i9-14900HX also has slightly more 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 i9-14900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.