Intel Core i9-7980XE vs Intel Core i7-12700F

Core i9-7980XE vs Core i7-12700F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700F is faster than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700F outputs less heat than Core i9-7980XE thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.