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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HX beats the Core i9-11900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11900F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Also, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX outputs less heat than Core i9-11900F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-12900HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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