Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00

$ 149.99 significantly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13331 points

16106 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14234 points

15771 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13035 points

16300 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12983 points

16541 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i9-12900K and the Core i9-14900K? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points

16871 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points

506.50 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27005 points

41193 points

52% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points

20147 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points

3053 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

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

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

36 MiB

20% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

39th of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

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 i9-14900K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K beats the Core i9-12900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-12900K that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900K. According to our data, the Core i9-12900K and Core i9-14900K have the same clock speed.

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.