Intel Core i3-12100F 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

$ 93.99
$ 3355.01 significantly less expensive
$ 3449.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5223 points
46% significantly better overall score
3576 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8443 points
67% significantly better gaming score
5033 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4270 points
36% slightly better multitasking score
3131 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4098 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score
3029 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4038 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3768 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.71 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
92.31 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7143 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4927 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2123 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1326 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7384 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4974 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
63% 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

58 W
45 W
28% 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

323rd 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 i3-12100F vs Core i7-9750H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Core i7-9750H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9750H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100F 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 i3-12100F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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