Intel Core i5-12600KF vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Core i5-12600KF vs Core i9-11900H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600KF is faster than the Core i9-11900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-11900H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-11900H outputs less heat than Core i5-12600KF thanks to a significantly 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 i5-12600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.