Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900KF performs better than the Core i9-13900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-9900KF that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.