Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Core i9-12900HX

Core i7-12700F vs Core i9-12900HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900HX performs better than the Core i7-12700F. Despite this, the Core i7-12700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HX has slightly more cores than the Core i7-12700F. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HX has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX outputs less heat than Core i7-12700F thanks to a slightly 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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.