Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core 7 240H

Core i9-12900H vs Core 7 240H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 240H is faster than the Core i9-12900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core 7 240H that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H. Both the Core i9-12900H and Core 7 240H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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