Intel Core i9-10900F vs Intel Core i7-12700K

Core i9-10900F vs Core i7-12700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700K beats the Core i9-10900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900F has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10900F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700K CPU because of its 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 i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.