Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

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

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 69.52 slightly less expensive

$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10416 points

13554 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12172 points

13457 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

13583 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9714 points

13587 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9522 points

12798 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

412.82 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15291 points

29628 points

93% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11687 points

17426 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2341 points

2844 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

17750 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2946 points

23% 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

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.6 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

161% significantly lower TDP

170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

77th of 1,089

36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2022 September

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 i7-12700F vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i7-12700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700F in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 7900X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.