Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i7-11700F vs Core i9-12900T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700F beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700F. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i7-11700F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.