Intel Core i5-4690 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i5-4690 vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Core i5-4690 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4690 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-4690 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4690. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4690 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 i5-4690 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. For instance, the Core i5-4690 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.