Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Core i9-11900F vs Core i7-12700H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900F beats the Core i7-12700H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-11900F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H 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.

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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.