Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i7-8086K vs Core i9-12900HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.