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

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i9-12900H benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H 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.

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