Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i9-9900 vs Core i7-12800H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800H performs better than the Core i9-9900. Despite this, the Core i9-9900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-9900 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i9-9900 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.