Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6105 points
8926 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points
10736 points
35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points
8383 points
52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points
8262 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points
218.16 points
47% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
14 MiB
599% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

248th of 1,092
112th of 1,092

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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