Intel Core i9-12900KS vs Intel Core i5-14400F

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Price

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$ 379.99
$ 223.69
$ 156.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14046 points
61% significantly better overall score
8708 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14925 points
33% slightly better gaming score
11173 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13755 points
73% significantly better multitasking score
7924 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13690 points
77% significantly better heavy workload score
7722 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12192 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

372.23 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16013 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11074 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2713 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2320 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

29th of 1,124
125th of 1,124

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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