Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12789 points

83% significantly better overall score

6976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14030 points

45% significantly better gaming score

9640 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12383 points

99% significantly better multitasking score

6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12302 points

104% significantly better heavy workload score

6011 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

361.08 points

86% significantly higher Blender score

193.42 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

9% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

128% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

96 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 1,089

196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-12900KF vs Core Ultra 7 165H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900KF performs better than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 165H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-12900KF has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H.

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.