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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KF beats the Core i7-12800H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-9900KF. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900KF. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KF. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.