Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Core i7-11700K vs Core i7-12700H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-11700K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.