Intel Core i3-12100 vs Intel Core i7-9750H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 128.59
$ 3320.41 significantly less expensive
$ 3449.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points
43% significantly better overall score
3576 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points
65% significantly better gaming score
5033 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points
33% slightly better multitasking score
3131 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
3029 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4034 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3768 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
92.31 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6822 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4927 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2105 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1326 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4974 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1359 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
45 W
33% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB
384 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089
477th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3
9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i3-12100 vs Core i7-9750H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100 beats the Core i7-9750H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9750H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9750H has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the Core i7-9750H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9750H. Despite this, the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9750H outputs less heat than Core i3-12100 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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