Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i5-12500

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12500

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 272.22

$ 126.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6827 points

7166 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8465 points

9976 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6279 points

6301 points

0.35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6130 points

0.51% slightly better heavy workload score

6099 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7066 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6075 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

176.47 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

170.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8008 points

9112 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1647 points

2182 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8172 points

9032 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points

2320 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

6% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 1,089

182nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i5-12500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Core i9-9900KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. The Core i5-12500 outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KF 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.