Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8158 points

8351 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10256 points

10838 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7544 points

7548 points

0.05% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7441 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

7300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.04 points

224.34 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

78% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

35 W

28% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1120 KiB

16% slightly more L1 cache

960 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

25 MiB

4% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

142nd of 1,089

132nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900H vs Core i7-12700T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900H performs better than the Core i7-12700T. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i7-12700T that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.