Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Price

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$ 318.24

$ 89.31 slightly less expensive

$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points

13078 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

13206 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

13028 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

13011 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

11128 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

394.92 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

21751 points

24776 points

13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9492 points

16762 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1788 points

2797 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

16768 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

2868 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.70 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

768 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089

40th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Core i7-12700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.