Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core i5-1135G7

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 279.99
$ 529.00 significantly less expensive
$ 808.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points
329% significantly better overall score
2976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points
175% significantly better gaming score
5093 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points
422% significantly better multitasking score
2371 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points
441% significantly better heavy workload score
2270 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11666 points
303% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2891 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points
577% significantly higher Blender score
53.33 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14840 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4557 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2507 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1587 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14786 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4495 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2584 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1592 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
300% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
200% significantly more threads
8

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
23% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W
15 W
1506% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
274% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

44th of 1,089
540th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i9-12900KF vs Core i5-1135G7 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Core i5-1135G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1135G7 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-1135G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1135G7. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1135G7. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1135G7 outputs less heat than Core i9-12900KF 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 i9-12900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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