Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700F

Price

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$ 528.31

$ 301.43

$ 226.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

13879 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

14674 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

13663 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

13676 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

12064 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

294.87 points

0.30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points

16387 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points

2697 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

33 MiB

10% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 1,089

33rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i9-12900F vs Core i7-14700F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700F beats the Core i9-12900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700F has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900F. Indeed, the Core i7-14700F has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F.

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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.