Intel Core i9-11900KF vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Core i9-11900KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11900KF that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900KF. The Core i7-12850HX 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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.