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

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

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700KF performs better than the Core i9-12900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12700KF that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F 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.