Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Core i7-7820X vs Core i9-12900F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F is faster than the Core i7-7820X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X 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 i7-7820X 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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.