Intel Core i9-10900KF vs Intel Core i7-12650HX

Core i9-10900KF vs Core i7-12650HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900KF beats the Core i7-12650HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12650HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12650HX has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-10900KF that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12650HX. Also, the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650HX outputs less heat than Core i9-10900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12650HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900KF. The Core i7-12650HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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