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

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i7-12700H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900KF 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-11900KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Core i9-11900KF 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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.