Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 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

8226 points

14% slightly better overall score

7176 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8838 points

9511 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8007 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

6485 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7938 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

6334 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.23 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

154.80 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15821 points

1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

15537 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

800 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

25% slightly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

24 MiB

20% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 1,089

180th 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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900K vs Core i7-12650H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900K performs better than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-10900K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12650H. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650H outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-10900K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-10900K.

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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.