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Pentium 3556U vs Core i9-12900K

Pentium 3556U vs Core i9-12900K: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i9-12900K outperforms Pentium 3556U on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i9-12900K is 2986 days newer than Pentium 3556U.

Advantages of Pentium 3556U

  • Consumes up to 88% less energy than Intel Core i9-12900K - 15 vs 125 Watts

Advantages of Core i9-12900K

  • Performs up to 8% better in Stray than Pentium 3556U - 189 vs 175 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium 3556U - 24 vs 2 threads
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Stray

Stray

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium 3556U Logo
Pentium 3556U

Mobile • Sep 1st, 2013


FPS

175

93%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

Intel Core i9-12900K Logo
Core i9-12900K

Desktop • Nov 4th, 2021


FPS

189

100%

Value, €/FPS

€2.3/FPS

100%

Price, €

€434.79

100%

FPS and Value Winner

INTEL Core i9-12900K - Vassoio LGA1700 da 3,2 GHz

Buy for 434.79 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 82 minutes ago

Trending Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium 3556U Logo
Pentium 3556U

Mobile • Sep 1st, 2013

Intel Core i9-12900K Logo
Core i9-12900K

Desktop • Nov 4th, 2021

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Pentium 3556U Logo
Pentium 3556U

Mobile • Sep 1st, 2013


Single-Core

313

12%

Multi-Core

516

3%

Intel Core i9-12900K Logo
Core i9-12900K

Desktop • Nov 4th, 2021


Single-Core

2620

100%

Multi-Core

15445

100%

Intel Pentium 3556U Logo

Pentium 3556U

vs
Intel Core i9-12900K Logo

Core i9-12900K

Sep 1st, 2013Release Date
Nov 4th, 2021
PentiumCollectionCore i9
HaswellCodenameAlder Lake
Intel BGA 1168SocketIntel Socket 1700
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
2Cores
16
2Threads
24
1.7 GHzBase Clock Speed
3.2 GHz
Non-TurboTurbo Clock Speed5.2 GHz
15 W
TDP125 W
22 nmProcess Size
10 nm
17.0xMultiplier
32.0x
Intel HDIntegrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 770
NoOverclockable
Yes

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