Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i9-12900T vs Xeon Platinum 8170M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Platinum 8170M is faster than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores compared to the Core i9-12900T that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900T. Our comparison shows that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has slightly more L3 cache.

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