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General information Core i9-12900F Core i5-8500
Launched Q1 2022 Q1 2018
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 2.4 GHz 20 % 3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.1 GHz 0 % 4.1 GHz 19.6 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 24 0 % 6 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 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 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-12900F Core i5-8500
Overall Score 69926 0 % 49875 28.7 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 63 % 26.7 %
Benchmark Score 23909 0 % 6188 74.1 %
Single Thread Score 4029.3 0 % 2455.1 39.1 %
Encrypting Data 25720.2 MB/s 0 % 2992.9 MB/s 88.4 %
Compressing Data 457.8 MB/s 0 % 131.7 MB/s 71.2 %
String objects sorting 50645.1 thousand/s 0 % 16567.8 thousand/s 67.3 %
Prime numbers generation 132 millions/s 0 % 36.2 millions/s 72.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 129631 millions/s 0 % 26867.7 millions/s 79.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 98836.5 millions/s 0 % 22501.5 millions/s 77.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900F, Core i5-8500.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900F Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 162.4 FPS 102.8 FPS
High settings 259.9 FPS 164.5 FPS
Medium settings 324.9 FPS 205.6 FPS
Low settings 406.1 FPS 257.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 36.7 %

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 i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 174.0 FPS 138.5 FPS
High settings 278.4 FPS 221.6 FPS
Medium settings 348.0 FPS 277.0 FPS
Low settings 435.0 FPS 346.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.4 %
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