Intel Core i7-8850H vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i7-8850H vs Core i9-12900T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8850H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8850H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i7-8850H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.