Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7582 points

8351 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8692 points

10838 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7207 points

7548 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7099 points

7300 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.66 points

224.34 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8309 points

9560 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1714 points

2256 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

960 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

12 MiB

380% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

25 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

164th of 1,089

132nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-10900 vs Core i7-12700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Core i7-12700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700T has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-10900 that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12700T has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. The Core i7-12700T also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.