Intel Core i7-12700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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 7900X3D

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 555.02 significantly less expensive

$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10416 points

13385 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12172 points

13203 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

13450 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9714 points

13474 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

398.41 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11687 points

17603 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2341 points

2784 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

17560 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2866 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

4.40 GHz

33% 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

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

128 MiB

412% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 1,089

38th 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 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i7-12700F vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D beats the Core i7-12700F in overall performance. 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 7900X3D has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700F.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.