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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-11700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.