Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i9-12900KF vs Core i9-11950H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H 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 i9-11950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11950H. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.