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

Core i9-11900F vs Core i9-12900HK benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900F performs better than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900F. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. Both the Core i9-11900F and Core i9-12900HK have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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 info from our database shows that the Core i9-12900HK has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly 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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.