Product Compare

Intel Core i9 9900KF vs Intel Core i3 12100F

	CPU Intel Core i9 9900KF	CPU Intel Core i3 12100F
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2019	Jan 2022
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Coffee Lake	Alder Lake-S
Processor Number	i9-9900KF	i3-12100F
Integrated Graphics	N/A	N/A
Package
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	10 nm
Socket	LGA-1151	LGA-1700
Power Consumption	95 W	58 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	4
Performance Core Threads	16	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.6 GHz	3.3 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5 GHz	4.3 GHz
Total Core Count	8	4
Total Thread Count	16	8
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	36x	33x
L1 Cache	64 K per core	80 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	1280 K per core
L3 Cache	16 MB shared	12 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2666	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Max Memory Size	128 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	41.6 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	5.0
PCIe Lanes	16	20
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1260	1636
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	12606	8443
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1612	2168
Geekbench 5 Single Core	1300	1666
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	7648	7195
Geekbench 5 Multi Core	8856	6314
Passmark CPU Single Core	2945	3477
Passmark CPU Multi Core	18462	14269