Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900KF

Price

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$ 93.99

$ 314.50 significantly less expensive

$ 408.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5223 points

15773 points

201% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8443 points

15321 points

81% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4270 points

16003 points

274% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4098 points

16246 points

296% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4038 points

16795 points

315% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.71 points

508.28 points

376% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7384 points

20340 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

3072 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

499% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

36 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

18th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-12100F vs Core i9-14900KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KF 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores with 24 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 i9-14900KF.

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.