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General information Core i9-12900KF Core i5-8400
Launched Q4 2021 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 12.5 %
Turbo Clock 5.2 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 23.1 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 24 0 % 6 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 241 W 0 % 65 W 73 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-12900KF Core i5-8400
Overall Score 71818 0 % 49425 31.2 %
Future Proof 85 % 0 % 62 % 27.1 %
Benchmark Score 26604 0 % 5967 77.6 %
Single Thread Score 4179.5 0 % 2363.9 43.4 %
Encrypting Data 29429.5 MB/s 0 % 2773.1 MB/s 90.6 %
Compressing Data 528.4 MB/s 0 % 128.6 MB/s 75.7 %
String objects sorting 57907.5 thousand/s 0 % 16080.2 thousand/s 72.2 %
Prime numbers generation 144.1 millions/s 0 % 37 millions/s 74.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 139891 millions/s 0 % 25583.3 millions/s 81.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 104888 millions/s 0 % 21851.8 millions/s 79.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900KF, Core i5-8400.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900KF Core i5-8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.1 FPS 101.5 FPS
High settings 268.9 FPS 162.3 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 202.9 FPS
Low settings 420.1 FPS 253.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 39.6 %

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 i5-8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 177.3 FPS 137.8 FPS
High settings 283.7 FPS 220.4 FPS
Medium settings 354.7 FPS 275.5 FPS
Low settings 443.3 FPS 344.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.3 %
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