Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i9-11980HK vs Core i9-12900T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900T performs better than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11980HK that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11980HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Also, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i9-11980HK thanks to a slightly 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.