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

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i9-12900T comparison

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900KF. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900KF. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-12900T also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.