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General information Core i9-12900KF Core i3-8300
Launched Q4 2021 Q2 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake
Clock 3.2 GHz 13.5 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 241 W 0 % 62 W 74.3 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
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 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-12900KF Core i3-8300
Overall Score 71810 0 % 44942 37.4 %
Future Proof 85 % 0 % 65 % 23.5 %
Benchmark Score 26591 0 % 4080 84.7 %
Single Thread Score 4124.3 0 % 2242.9 45.6 %
Encrypting Data 29481.8 MB/s 0 % 1890.9 MB/s 93.6 %
Compressing Data 524.8 MB/s 0 % 81.5 MB/s 84.5 %
String objects sorting 57475.7 thousand/s 0 % 10225 thousand/s 82.2 %
Prime numbers generation 143.1 millions/s 0 % 35.8 millions/s 75 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 137501 millions/s 0 % 16329.3 millions/s 88.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 106761 millions/s 0 % 14253.1 millions/s 86.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900KF, Core i3-8300.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900KF Core i3-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 88.1 FPS
High settings 268.8 FPS 141.0 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 176.3 FPS
Low settings 420.1 FPS 220.4 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 i3-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 177.1 FPS 129.7 FPS
High settings 283.4 FPS 207.5 FPS
Medium settings 354.2 FPS 259.4 FPS
Low settings 442.8 FPS 324.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.8 %
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