Intel Core i9-10900F vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i9-10900F vs Core i9-12900H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900H performs better than the Core i9-10900F. 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 i9-12900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-10900F has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H outputs less heat than Core i9-10900F 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 i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.