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General information Core i9-12900F Core i7-8700K
Launched Q1 2022 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake
Clock 2.4 GHz 35.1 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.1 GHz 0 % 4.7 GHz 7.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 24 0 % 12 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
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 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-12900F Core i7-8700K
Overall Score 69928 0 % 54504 22.1 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 62 % 27.9 %
Benchmark Score 23911 0 % 8825 63.1 %
Single Thread Score 4098.5 0 % 2704.7 34 %
Encrypting Data 25772.2 MB/s 0 % 4825.6 MB/s 81.3 %
Compressing Data 456.4 MB/s 0 % 196.9 MB/s 56.9 %
String objects sorting 50040.9 thousand/s 0 % 25576.6 thousand/s 48.9 %
Prime numbers generation 131.9 millions/s 0 % 38.8 millions/s 70.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 130547 millions/s 0 % 45888.1 millions/s 64.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 97559.3 millions/s 0 % 28793.7 millions/s 70.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900F, Core i7-8700K.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900F Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 162.4 FPS 116.6 FPS
High settings 259.8 FPS 186.5 FPS
Medium settings 324.8 FPS 233.1 FPS
Low settings 405.9 FPS 291.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 28.2 %

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 i9-12900F Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 173.7 FPS 146.5 FPS
High settings 277.9 FPS 234.4 FPS
Medium settings 347.3 FPS 293.1 FPS
Low settings 434.2 FPS 366.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.6 %
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