Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Core i7-8700 vs Core i9-12900F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900F performs better than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.