Intel Core i5-4670 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

6632 points

185% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4272 points

7128 points

66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1777 points

6506 points

266% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1705 points

6504 points

281% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.61 points

188.94 points

305% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3282 points

11628 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1186 points

2268 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

146% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.9 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

35 W

139% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

655th of 1,089

214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-4670 vs Core i9-12900T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Core i5-4670. Despite this, the Core i5-4670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-4670 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4670. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4670 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i5-4670 thanks to a significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-4670 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.