Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i9-13900K

Core i9-9900K vs Core i9-13900K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900K beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900K. Despite this, the Core i9-13900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-13900K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Core i9-13900K also has significantly 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.