Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Core i9-14900

Core i7-12700F vs Core i9-14900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900 is faster than the Core i7-12700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-12700F. Indeed, the Core i9-14900 has 24 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.