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General information Core i9-12900KF Core i9-9900KF
Launched Q4 2021 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Alder Lake Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 3.2 GHz 11.1 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.2 GHz 0 % 5 GHz 3.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 8 50 %
Threads 24 0 % 16 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 241 W 0 % 95 W 60.6 %
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
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
8 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-12900KF Core i9-9900KF
Overall Score 71822 0 % 58669 18.3 %
Future Proof 85 % 0 % 71 % 16.5 %
Benchmark Score 26609 0 % 11847 55.5 %
Single Thread Score 4167 0 % 2950.6 29.2 %
Encrypting Data 29458.2 MB/s 0 % 6464.3 MB/s 78.1 %
Compressing Data 526.2 MB/s 0 % 277.6 MB/s 47.3 %
String objects sorting 57571.2 thousand/s 0 % 36935.1 thousand/s 35.8 %
Prime numbers generation 143.7 millions/s 0 % 47 millions/s 67.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 139872 millions/s 0 % 66626.8 millions/s 52.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 105515 millions/s 0 % 41266.4 millions/s 60.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900KF, Core i9-9900KF.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900KF Core i9-9900KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.1 FPS 128.9 FPS
High settings 268.9 FPS 206.3 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 257.9 FPS
Low settings 420.2 FPS 322.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.3 %

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 i9-9900KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 177.6 FPS 154.3 FPS
High settings 284.1 FPS 246.8 FPS
Medium settings 355.2 FPS 308.5 FPS
Low settings 444.0 FPS 385.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.1 %
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