Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i7-4770

Core i9-12900K vs Core i7-4770 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Core i7-4770 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4770 outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K 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 i9-12900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.