Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core i9-12900HX

Core i9-12900KF vs Core i9-12900HX comparison

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HX. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX 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.

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 i9-12900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.