Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i9-12900F vs Core i9-12900H comparison

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900H. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H outputs less heat than Core i9-12900F thanks to a significantly 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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.