Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Core i9-11900F vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900F beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11900F has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12500T. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. Also, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Core i9-11900F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12500T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Core i5-12500T also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.