Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i9-12900K vs Core i9-12900H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K 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 i9-12900K has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-12900H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900H 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.