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

Core i7-9700K vs Core i3-12100F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700K performs better than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i3-12100F that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100F. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i7-9700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.