Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-12900F

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 239.31 significantly less expensive

$ 528.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

25% slightly better overall score

10606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

13% slightly better gaming score

12487 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

10032 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

9936 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

10914 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

293.98 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

13858 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2526 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W

65 W

270% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

Identical

1280 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

Identical

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900K vs Core i9-12900F benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900F. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F 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.

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