Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Core i9-12900KF vs Core Ultra 5 245K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF is faster than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 245K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900KF has slightly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 245K. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds.

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.