Intel Core i9-12900H vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 14 core CPU vs Intel 4 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
799% significantly better overall score
907 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10256 points
601% significantly better gaming score
1463 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7544 points
919% significantly better multitasking score
740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7441 points
949% significantly better heavy workload score
709 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.04 points
1396% significantly higher Blender score
13.97 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
250% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
150% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

142nd of 1,089
981st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-12900H vs Core i7 Q 720 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900H is faster than the Core i7 Q 720. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7 Q 720 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7 Q 720. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 720.

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.

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