Intel Core i5-9600KF vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Core i5-9600KF vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Core i5-9600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600KF in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9600KF has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Core i5-9600KF has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has more threads than the Core i5-9600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100F. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i5-9600KF 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 i5-9600KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.