Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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
$ 149.95
$ 130.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points
433% significantly better overall score
2395 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points
251% significantly better gaming score
3995 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points
542% significantly better multitasking score
1928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points
564% significantly better heavy workload score
1851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points
637% significantly higher Blender score
48.93 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14840 points
480% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2555 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2507 points
174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
914 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14786 points
365% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3174 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2584 points
143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1063 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
18% slightly higher clock speed
2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

241 W
47 W
412% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
400% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

44th of 1,089
644th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i9-12900KF vs Core i7-4800MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Core i7-4800MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4800MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-4800MQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4800MQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4800MQ. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4800MQ 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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