Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i9-12900K

Core i9-9900 vs Core i9-12900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Core i9-9900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-9900 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.