Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Core i3-12100F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-12100F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100F. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i9-9900K thanks to a 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.