Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i7-12800H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12800H is faster than the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700KF. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800H 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 i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.