Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i7-11850H vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Core i7-11850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11850H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11850H. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-11850H and Core i9-12900HK are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.