For instance, the Intel Core i9-12900K has a total of 16 cores, which is split between right P cores and eight E cores. It also uses the company's HyperThreading technology, which allows each processor core to perform more than one task parallely. The 12900K also has 24 threads and clocks up to 5.2GHz using Intel's Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology. The company claims it offers 19 percent performance improvement in the performance cores, as compared to its 11th generation iterations.