Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Core i7-12700K vs Core i9-10900X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700K performs better than the Core i9-10900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900X outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K 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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.