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General information Core i9-12900KF Core i5-6600K
Launched Q4 2021 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Alder Lake Skylake-S
Clock 3.2 GHz 8.6 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.2 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 25 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 241 W 0 % 91 W 62.2 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-12900KF Core i5-6600K
Overall Score 71817 0 % 44965 37.4 %
Future Proof 85 % 0 % 49 % 42.4 %
Benchmark Score 26602 0 % 4088 84.6 %
Single Thread Score 4196.2 0 % 2308.4 45 %
Encrypting Data 29486.8 MB/s 0 % 1852.1 MB/s 93.7 %
Compressing Data 522.1 MB/s 0 % 85.2 MB/s 83.7 %
String objects sorting 57214.8 thousand/s 0 % 10579.1 thousand/s 81.5 %
Prime numbers generation 143.7 millions/s 0 % 30.8 millions/s 78.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 140167 millions/s 0 % 16288.1 millions/s 88.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 106474 millions/s 0 % 14130.3 millions/s 86.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900KF, Core i5-6600K.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900KF Core i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 88.2 FPS
High settings 268.9 FPS 141.1 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 176.4 FPS
Low settings 420.1 FPS 220.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 47.5 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i9-12900KF Core i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 177.0 FPS 129.8 FPS
High settings 283.3 FPS 207.6 FPS
Medium settings 354.1 FPS 259.5 FPS
Low settings 442.6 FPS 324.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.7 %
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