Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Core i9-7900X vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7900X performs better than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has slightly more cores than the Core i9-7900X. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-7900X. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.