Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i9-10850K vs Core i9-12900H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900H beats the Core i9-10850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-10850K that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H outputs less heat than Core i9-10850K thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.