Intel Core i9-12900KS vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Core i9-12900KS vs Core i9-14900KS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KS is faster than the Core i9-12900KS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900KS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-12900KS that has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KS.

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.