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General information Core i9-12900 Core i9-10980XE
Launched Q1 2022 Q4 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 FCLGA2066
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Alder Lake Cascade Lake-X
Clock 2.4 GHz 20 % 3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.1 GHz 0 % 4.8 GHz 5.9 %
Cores 16 11.1 % 18 0 %
Threads 24 33.3 % 36 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 60.6 % 165 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 50 % 256 GB 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 28.6 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
18 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 30 MB
1 × 24.75 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-12900 Core i9-10980XE
Overall Score 68822 0 % 68052 1.1 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 73 % 15.1 %
Benchmark Score 22434 0 % 21446 4.4 %
Single Thread Score 4062.2 0 % 2632.4 35.2 %
Encrypting Data 23573.9 MB/s 0 % 12863.5 MB/s 45.4 %
Compressing Data 406.2 MB/s 26.3 % 551.2 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 45348.9 thousand/s 35.2 % 69956.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 124.7 millions/s 0 % 118.4 millions/s 5.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 129998 millions/s 0 % 127416 millions/s 2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 93686.1 millions/s 0 % 79332.8 millions/s 15.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900, Core i9-10980XE.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900 Core i9-10980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.5 FPS 156.2 FPS
High settings 253.6 FPS 249.9 FPS
Medium settings 317.1 FPS 312.4 FPS
Low settings 396.3 FPS 390.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.5 %

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 i9-12900 Core i9-10980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.6 FPS 170.3 FPS
High settings 274.6 FPS 272.4 FPS
Medium settings 343.3 FPS 340.5 FPS
Low settings 429.1 FPS 425.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.8 %
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