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General information Core i9-12900 Core i7-940
Launched Q1 2022 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1700 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Alder Lake Bloomfield
Clock 2.4 GHz 17.2 % 2.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.1 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 37.3 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 24 0 % 8 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 10 nm 77.8 % 45 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 Yes
Performance Core i9-12900 Core i7-940
Overall Score 68643 0 % 37153 45.9 %
Future Proof 86 % 0 % 10 % 88.4 %
Benchmark Score 22202 0 % 1905 91.4 %
Single Thread Score 4017.6 0 % 1315.2 67.3 %
Encrypting Data 23711.5 MB/s 0 % 4328.4 MB/s 81.7 %
Compressing Data 411.2 MB/s 0 % 63.2 MB/s 84.6 %
String objects sorting 44984.5 thousand/s 0 % 8916.8 thousand/s 80.2 %
Prime numbers generation 123.1 millions/s 0 % 22 millions/s 82.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 128400 millions/s 0 % 16284.5 millions/s 87.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 93751.7 millions/s 0 % 6839.9 millions/s 92.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-12900, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i9-12900 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.6 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 253.7 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 317.2 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 396.5 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 59 %

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 i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.5 FPS 116.1 FPS
High settings 274.4 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 343.0 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 428.8 FPS 290.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.3 %
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