Intel Core i7-12700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Core i7-12700K vs Ryzen 9 9950X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X beats the Core i7-12700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12700K that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700K. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9950X outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.