Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265

Core i9-12900K vs Core Ultra 7 265 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Core Ultra 7 265 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 265 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 265 has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-12900K that has 16 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 265. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 265. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 265 has a slightly higher turbo 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.