Intel Core i7-12700KF vs Intel Core i9-12900

Core i7-12700KF vs Core i9-12900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900 beats the Core i7-12700KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700KF has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900. Despite this, the Core i9-12900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700KF thanks to a significantly 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 i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.