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

Compare Intel Core X-series 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

7550 points

8351 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points

10838 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points

7548 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points

7300 points

0.70% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points

224.34 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points

9560 points

0.83% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points

2256 points

43% significantly 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

3.7 GHz

164% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

35 W

371% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

960 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

Identical

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 1,089

132nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

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

Yes

Core i9-10900X vs Core i7-12700T benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700T has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700T.

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