Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Core i7-12700F

Core i3-12100F vs Core i7-12700F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700F beats the Core i3-12100F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-12100F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700F has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. Both the Core i3-12100F and Core i7-12700F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-12100F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700F CPU because of its 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 i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.