Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i9-11900F vs Core i9-12900H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900F beats the Core i9-12900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H 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. Both the Core i9-11900F and Core i9-12900H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H 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.

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.