Intel Core i7-9700F vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Core i7-9700F vs Core i3-12100F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700F beats the Core i3-12100F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700F has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i7-9700F thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.