Intel Core i9-12900KS vs Intel Core i7-13790F

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 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

14046 points

0.44% slightly better overall score

13984 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14925 points

1% slightly better gaming score

14684 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13755 points

13783 points

0.20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13690 points

13809 points

0.87% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12192 points

0.39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

12145 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

372.23 points

392.92 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

33 MiB

10% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

30th of 1,089

32nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900KS vs Core i7-13790F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13790F performs better than the Core i9-12900KS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900KS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13790F.

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