Intel Core i7-12700K 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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$ 259.99

$ 147.56 significantly less expensive

$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11540 points

13078 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13325 points

0.90% slightly better gaming score

13206 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10952 points

13028 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10812 points

13011 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10051 points

11128 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

304.26 points

394.92 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

22565 points

24776 points

9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13491 points

16762 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2487 points

2797 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13854 points

16768 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2554 points

2868 points

12% 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

3.6 GHz

3.70 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

190 W

65 W

192% significantly lower TDP

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

57th 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

2021 November

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 i7-12700K vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900 performs better than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.