Product Compare

Intel Core i7 12700KF vs Intel Core i5 9400F

	CPU Intel Core i7 12700KF	CPU Intel Core i5 9400F
General Parameters
Release Date	Oct 2021	Jan 2019
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake	Coffee Lake
Processor Number	i7-12700KF	i5-9400F
Integrated Graphics	No	N/A
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	14 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	125 W	65 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	190 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100°C	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	6
Performance Core Threads	16	6
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.6 GHz	2.9 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.9 GHz	4.1 GHz
Efficiency Cores	4
Efficiency Core Threads	4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency	2.7 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency	3.8 GHz
Total Core Count	12	6
Total Thread Count	20	6
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	36x	29x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	12 MB shared	256 K per core
L3 Cache	25 MB shared	9 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200	DDR4-2666
Max Memory Size	128 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	41.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	20	16
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1944	1014
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	22801	5579
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2790	1396
Geekbench 5 Single Core	2031	1067
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	15374	5142
Geekbench 5 Multi Core	14961	4806
Blender	349	84
Passmark CPU Single Core	4020	2453
Passmark CPU Multi Core	34419	9511