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

Core i7-12700KF vs Core i9-12900KS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KS is faster than the Core i7-12700KF. 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 i9-12900KS 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900KS outputs less heat than Core i7-12700KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-12700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.